the tragedy of sex

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Last year I had a little bit of a to and fro with David Horowitz over
>Marxism via e-mail. He says a major influence on him rejecting Marxism was
>L. Kolakowki's three volumes from Oxford Univ. Press on marxism. A big theme
>of these vols. is the Promethean hubris of Karl.

It seems to me that what plagues the present is the opposite of the 
Promethean impulses: "No Future"; "The End of History"; "There Is No 
Alternative [TINA]"; and so on.  One fondly remembers the Old Man's 
youthful ebullience.

"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven."

Nowadays, youths often sound prematurely old.  Must be "accelerated 
decrepitude" of late capitalism, to borrow Pris's words in _Blade 
Runner_.

Yoshie