Geez you can give value for 2k, Doug! Right on the button, for mine, on both counts - in Oz as it is in US. >As far as dangers go, this is pretty far down on the list in 1999. And any >U.S. radical has to take a critique of petit bourgeois (no quotes for me, >thank you) influence seriously - e.g. the localist, individually >self-reliant, small-business fantasies that permeate populist and green >politics specificially and American ideology in general. > >>I like the rejection of bourgeois respectability. The Beats played this >>role in America. > >And the Beats were a major inspiration for what Tom Frank & the Baffler >Boys call the commofidication of dissent, too - lifestyle rebels with a >deeply reactionary streak.
