review Ch 11 real estate vs. community

[Bekah]

Super post,  Joseph -  thanks.

Loved the bit about Tresero - I'd been meaning to look into that.

Yes, yes, yes about the significance of the draft and "they" seem to  
have learned from that one because there's never been the possibility  
of a draft since.  A draft would kill the current war.  Only if we  
are deliberately attacked big scale (not terrorist attack) will we be  
under a draft call again.

Housing bubble?  Land grab - you bet.  But as I see it,  you can't  
have freedom unless you own/occupy the land so M&D were on the right  
track and going the right way but I think they may have got lost in  
the wilds.

Bekah


On Mar 2, 2009, at 7:22 AM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

> The 1st line of CH 11 is funny in both ways, ha ha and peculiar  
> strange.
> The shape of the brief but legendary Trasero County coast,…  
> repeated the greater curve between SanDiego and Terminal Island.
> So is the apparently buttocks like shape of the coastline brief,  
> short lived? Or is it intentionally “legendary”; is the author  
> making the fictiveness of this place extra explicit to present his  
> own historical overview of an attempted revolution? And aren’t  
> buttocks explicit enough thou naughty boy?
>
> Calling it Trasero (buttock) buts the struggle in classic male  
> colonial terms which are repeated in the retreat to Rex Snuvvle’s  
> house in Las Nalgas(the rumps). So TRP casts the story of PR3 as a  
> fight over a lovely piece of California ass. Frenesi echoing the  
> notion on the contest between Atman and Vond. But the PR3 story is  
> also an age-old struggle, a battle freedom as an actual liberating  
> experience of mind, body and collective self determination versus  
> freedom as a slogan, as in the words of Brock Vond ”logs to be  
> built into more America”,  real-estate vs. community. Is the whole  
> America thing a housing bubble, land speculation from Washington to  
> Bush, or might we actually get to participate in this freedom thing..
>
> The key issue that the entire 60’s revolution hinged on was the  
> draft. To burn a draft card is to declare independence from the  
> core power of the state. MLK wasn’t killed til he began to  
> seriously confront militarism.
> The College of the Surf students smoke Vietnamese weed and hear the  
> wild ”subversive music” that is in the air. To the Nixonites  the  
> students become ”a beachead of hostile natives”.  The  
> transformation is fast- from  Nixon , Mike Curb and Dewy Weber  the  
> students and Atman see clearly the true nature of authority when  
> police beat up students; they become aware of their own sexuality  
> and sexual liberty as adults; they begin to study with  
> intensity,”rcognizing how deep,how empty was their ignorance”, they  
> try to understand their place in history;they start to argue  
> passionately about the direction of their “republic”.
>
> Woodstock happened in 1969 . I was there and then went back to  
> California to start my first attempt at College. I saw a nationwide  
> campus and rock and roll  centered sense of empowerment and  
> challenge to authoriies that swept through the society.  It was  
> fun , it was scary , it scared the Nixon folks and it started or  
> refueled a lot  of fires and many still burn.
>
> There is another aspect to this revolution that is more inward,  
> theological/philosophical, spiritual which may have posed a greater  
> threat to the social foundation and produced the most virulent and  
> effective reaction in the form of a revival of conservative  
> fundamentalist Christianity heavily tinged with racism. Again the  
> struggle is put under the microscope in the Vond, Frenesi, Atman  
> events.  In the eerie Frankenstein-like storm scene in Tulsa  Vond  
> tells Frenesi that what he wants is Atman’s spirit.
>
> Will pick this up with a deeper look at Atman’s name and role.
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