I feel so dirty.

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jan 3 04:16:17 PST 1999


Jim heartfield wrote:


>I'm sorry if I wasn't clear, but my point was that the sixties
>generation in the white house was just as capitalistic as the world war
>generation. The both seem inordinately lazy to me, dedicating vast
>amounts of their time to philanthropy and philandering -a sure sign of
>time on your hands (a bit like e-mail).

If anything distinguishes the cybergeneration of capitalists it's their lack of interest in philanthropy, which is almost as distinctive as their ostentatiously long workweeks. Gates's idea of charity is to give computers to schools, to stoke future demand for Microsoft products. The Silicon Valley crowd doesn't give anything away, making a positvely Randian virtue out of selfishness.

And Clinton couldn't even stop working while Monica was blowing him.

Doug



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