Watts essay: the little man

pynchonoid pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 2 16:10:57 CDT 2004


...from James Wolcott's blog yesterday:

[...] The allusion in "Tweet Smell of Success" to
"Reichian" refers not to Robert Reich, former
Secretary of Labor, but Wilhelm Reich, renegade
psychotherapist and founder of the Orgone Institute,
who in his 1948 book Listlen, Little Man! addressed
the reader:

"You let the powerful demand power 'for the little
man.' But you yourself are silent. You provide
powerful men with more power or choose weak, malignant
men to represent you. And you discover too late you
are always the dupe."

Not a bad description of Bush's "base." [...]
http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2004/10/department_of_c.php

[...] A lot of kids these days are more apt to be
calling him the little man -- meaning not so much any
member of the power structure as just your average
white L.A. taxpayer, registered voter, property owner,
employed, stable, mortgaged and the rest.
The little man bugs these kids more than The Man ever
bugged their parents. It is the little man who is
standing on their feet and in their way; he's all over
the place, and there is not much they can do to change
him or the way he feels about them. [...] 
--"A Journey into the Mind of Watts"
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_watts.html


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