Peter Coviello: Vineland Reread

[Mark Kohut]

Strongly agree. ...in that sense still prophetic although using
history.....a less simplistic
summary might go, We elected leaders who did this.....

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 9:26 AM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 07:49:42 -0500
>   Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not quite. That is only part of it, although Frenesi is
> >of course a key
> > part.
> > It is about how this nation failed to enact the possible
> > countercultural vision
> > that the ending of CoL49 opened up to. It is about how
> >America fell from
> > ideals (again) to cartoon visions of itself. How the 60s
> >generation could
> > not keep it going with a real political coalition.
> >Simplistically, I offer
> > timidly,
> > how we sold out.
>
> Perhaps, but with regard to the 60s it is also about COINTELPRO, i.e. the
> US
> government using counterinsurgency measures against its own citizens.
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