rural idiocy

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed May 6 11:50:25 PDT 1998


William S. Lear wrote:


>Doug, aren't you attributing a bit more (I guess) "agency" to these
>apparently "smug fathead suburbanites"? In addition, aren't you
>therefore implicitly crediting the capitalist system with giving them
>the very options that they must have in order for you to claim that
>they are (freely) choosing these things?
>
>It's not that the fatheads don't annoy me too. It's just that I have
>friends who are fatheads; I myself am probably a good candidate for
>fatheadhood, and I find myself wishing dearly that I might encounter
>"the dark-skinned" in something other than a social role of menial
>service.

Oh, you're right, but can't I have a pissy outburst now & then? I maintain the discipline of systemic critique for 23 1/2 hours a day, but every now & then I just have to vent. I doubt that you're really a serious candidate for fatheadhood, though, Bill.

Doug



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