Re; Post-modernists not justifed in complaining about elections

[Joel Katz]

once you've had fresno-anarchist/skatepunk pussy, there's no going back.

thing to do is lure 'em back to the motor lodge with the new deerhoof cd, 
then load 'em up with date-rape drug and read slate to 'em while they ride 
the sybian.


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>       Post-modernist academics and literary hyenas who are now predictably 
>and sentimentally venting about the elections and the Bush victory are 
>nearly as obnoxious and misguided as the evangelical boneheads that voted 
>in their stuttering redneck X-tian hero.   Though they may have checked off 
>the Kerry box,  the narcissistic English or American Lit. graduate student 
>type generally has little to no interest in real progressive or leftist 
>political causes; instead of attacking  Bush's economic policies, tax 
>swindles, corporate welfare, Enron, energy issues,  etc., the lit.creep 
>writes little polite articles pointing out binary oppositions or 
>"recontextualization" or "metahistorical romance"; instead of say  becoming 
>engaged with the CA greens and environmentalists who fought hard and lost 
>against Prop. 64--a decisive victory for the corporate oligarchy which now 
>doesn't have to worry much about consumer protection laws---UC lit. types 
>have been spending some weeks mourning D!
>errida,
>  scribbling their  pointless little book reports for the pointless little 
>journals; instead of even "blogging" against  the conservative hordes and 
>neo-cons (as some decent writers did, such as "cyberpunks" Gibson and 
>Sterling, and writers on Slate and Salon)--the academic literary types now 
>are uttering their "ghastly" and "dreadful"  before heading home to their 
>cozy digs in Westside LA, Davis, Berkeley, San Jose, etc. while the Feds 
>raid pirate radio stations, arrest Fresno and central valley leftists and 
>anarchists at will,  and real progressive sites/writers/activists such as 
>at indymedia are being monitored by the CIA......
>
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