Boomer myopia

David Casseres david.casseres at gmail.com
Sat Nov 25 14:14:51 CST 2006


On 11/25/06, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, there *is* a lot in Vineland about "what happened to the ideals and
> 'revolutions' of the 1960s, how did we get from that era of flawed idealism
> to the proto-fascist Reagainite 1980s?"  Just beacuse there's a lot of other
> stuff in there too doesn't mean anyone who discusses the 60s/80s/ political
> stuff is 'missing the point'. Anyone who denies that it's a part of Vineland
> would be though.
>
> Who has claimed that Vineland is solely a what-happened-to-the-hippies novel
> ? Not me guv'nor.

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that you have.  It seems to me that it is
often seen that narrowly, though.



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