Moore's appeal (was Re: Moore's representation of the working class

[Peter K.]

>>Maybe not. And where he lives and how much he makes is really secondary to
>>what he does with his writing & filmmaking, which can be very very good.
>>But I think he tries too hard to exude working class cred. So he ends up
>>projecting a rather patronizing, even insulting, and cliched image of what
>>the "real" working class is like.
>>
>>Doug
>
>an older mentor tells me that it was quite fashionable for new left men in
>the 60s to practically kill each other trying to demonstrate some working
>class street cred.

Sometimes Moore can be really funny, though. I remember he once made
a comment about the left that in the eighties it cared more about Central
America than regular Americans and this got him in trouble. In the new
book he says he was a Naderite and that the two parties are the same,
that Clinton was the best Republican President we've had, etc. So he's
on target. On target and humorous, two thing that wouldn't hurt the left
to be. So why are so many people buying his book? Is this the post-911
vacuum that Zizek predicted?

prolier than thou,
Peter