Re; Post-modernists not justifed in complaining about elections

[Glenn Fuller]

*Hey!!! That's my wife yer talkin' bout!!!!!*


Joel Katz wrote:

> 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 stutteriHey!!!!ng 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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