>I made my own major discovery about a core feature of "bourgeois"
>culture several years before I found myself involved in radical
>politics. I was writing a doctoral dissertaion on critical treatment of
>Alexander Pope in the early 20th century, and I was reading all these
>half-pint critics who, repeating cliches about Pope over a century old
>were still somehow presenting themselves as contrarian. Read through the
>archives on this list and see how often the poster will repeat some
>really banal (and quite popular) opinion and pass it off as being a
>minority and independent position. (Most statements about "The Left"
>fall into this category.)
>
>Carrol