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Doug Henwood wrote:
> Someone recently wrote on a list that dare not speak its name:
>
> "there is no new earnestness. earnestness never went away.... for
> every david letterman, there are a million moms.
>
> jed purdy, i know, likes to think irony is the reason we don't vote,
> but that's _apathy_, not irony. irony is actually a very deeply
> involved response to culture... in order to be ironic about
> something, you have to have cared about it _at some point_."
>
> Doug