Empire, nationalism, etc.

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Jun 6 17:47:03 PDT 2001


Doug quotes from _The Great Gatsby_:


>Charles Brown wrote:
>
>>CB: What about the struggle continues, victory is certain ? The
>>revolution is not over yet. Amandla.
>
>"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly
>into the past."

It's the absence of revolution that keeps the American dream alive & makes the USA an empire of nostalgia without memory.

Yoshie



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