VL-IV Joseph Tracy wrote...(0% np content)

[Michael Bailey]

Joseph Tracy wrote:
>The real danger for Nixon and the cultural
>imperialists was the vision of a new kind of world and the demand
>that the promises of democratic ideals become real.   The danger for
>the  revolutionaries was that like South Africa, they would win power
>and fail to adequately continue the deeper process of change needed
>to realize the dreams of justice and shared prosperity.( not judging
>here, just noting that there is along way to go.)

that's as good a way of capsulizing the political gist of Vineland as I've seen
(although the longing of Nixon, who actually walked among real live
demonstrators at least once, for those same dreams, and the
demonstrable expression of similar longing even among billionaires
like Luce who ran all those pro LSD articles and the picture of the 12
hippies lying in the grass in Life Magazine, or Bob Hope who joshed
about "grass" with the same bemused tolerance he had for booze, is
something I'd like to see examined, it's only part of the Vineland
agenda by perhaps being read-into the text by those for whom it's an
important part of the 60s and thus of the text...)


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 - "yep, he'd murmur, still making stupid mistakes and how about
yerself?" - Zoyd, p 24