>Hello everyone,
> Hi Ya Alec, good walk the other day with you!
Hi Doyle. I enjoyed that day very much. I was writing a response to what's below but the computer went wack. No internet access at work either, and Kinko's is kind of expensive. I'll try to respond, it may take a day or two.
-Alec
>Doyle
>So I want to shift this inquiry slightly to the concept of decadence.
I
>will put a social context upon the term, decadence. It seems to me
that
>as the stock market goes into a bear market, the present era will
>close. The whole Reagan shebang will look like the past soon enough.
>So that period is decaying in my opinion right before our eyes, and I
>would call that decadence. But to the general population decadence is
a
>bullet aimed at the marginalized. Primarily if my social sense is
>right, against homosexuality as a sign of "decadence". I reject the
>traditional forms of identifying decadence, which curiously Carrol Cox
>seemed to address recently in some kind of off hand remark about
>decadence too. We are in a period when a social order is decaying, but
>I want the whole idea of marginalization opened up so that us working
>class types get a better understanding of the directions which will
free
>us from the goddamn oppression. And that is what I think Doug is
>getting at in an economist sort of way, when he tries to tease out what
>is so bad about temping.
>regards,
>Doyle
>
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