Watergate, Warhol and the Birth of Post-Sixties America

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Mon Apr 17 11:52:46 CDT 2006


On Apr 17, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

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

Does Moe have a stand on the need for a good five-cent cigar?

That'd be a good one-dollar cigar in today's money I guess.


>
> --- 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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