Watergate, Warhol and the Birth of Post-Sixties America

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 17 10:39:45 CDT 2006


"You know what I blame this on the downfall of? 
Society." ---Moe Szyslak 

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:

> The 70s had to react to these disappointments.
> The hasty solution was postmodernism, incredulity
> toward meta-narratives, and ultimately toward all
> rational thinking.  Not that these critiques and  
> innovations in thought didn't have some validity,
> but they contained traps as well. For example,
> one can apparently now use with a semi-straight
> face the charge that making a distinction
> between popular and literary writing is elitist
> in order to try and score a debating point.

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