Jailhouse Chic

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 09:58 AM 6/13/00 -0400, Carl quoted Guy Trebay:
>It's also, perhaps, about the fact that the United States now jails more 
>people than any other country in the world. It becomes increasingly 
>difficult to conceive of jails as institutions outside society when you 
>consider that the number of incarcerated Americans approaches the combined 
>populations of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana.

No - it is about money making opportunities created by commodity fetishism.

 Shrewd entrepreneurs sell commodified identities to alienated masses and
make a handsome profit! That is the oldest capitalist trick on the books.
Why should that be seen with approval, if nor reverence, by the Left?

The infatuation with cultural symbols is a sure sign that the so-called US
left has nothing interesting to say other than counter-cultural gobbledegook.

wojtek