--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> So what if Lynch is a Reaganite? What bearing does
> that have on
> whether he makes good movies? Pound was a fascist
> and he wrote some
> fine poetry. .
Exactly. What is this thing with some of the Left that you cannot read, speak to, watch or mention (unless derogatorily) an artist/thinker with some reactionary ideas or tendencies without being labelled as reactionary yourself...Is it a feeling of insecurity...do these people have some kind of superstitious idea that they will be contaminated? Or maybe it's just nice and cozy never to have to think about how others view the world.
And there
> are writers and
> artists with good politics who produce unbearable
> crap.
Yes, one sitting at the poetry readings around San Francisco/Berkeley will prove you right on that count, Doug.
Thomas
===== "The tradition of all the dead generations
weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"
-Karl Marx
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