----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net>
> "There's a reason why the left, or what America calls the left, has an image
problem, and it's not all due to right-wing propaganda. It has an esthetic
that turns off ordinary Americans. The Left won't be caught dead eating at
Jack in the Box. It doesn't know how to make dick jokes and it doesn't know
what the blue line is for. It writes long pseudo-literary articles about
boxing, but it's useless in a bar fight. Its vision of the future is one in
which all vices except pedantry are strictly regulated-no sex, no rap music,
no snowmobiles, no snorting smack with models in fur bikinis. Even its
writing, and particularly its political writing, is joyless and condescending.
The lefty writing style is characterized most particularly by a preponderance
of irritating literary winks to its fellow tribe members, nervous little
verbal tics that are the intellectual's idea of secret frat handshakes."
>
> <http://nypress.com/16/8/books/books.cfm>
>
> A little over the top (I disagree about the "no sex, no rap music" slam),
but in general correct.
>
> DP
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Gee, maybe some leftist writing about the USA is joyless and condescending because the joy has gone out of American life and the know-it-all imperialists that "govern" this country are the most arrogant and condescending waste of cells the planet has ever had to adapt to.
BTW, isn't it the anhedonic Right that wants to outlaw all forms of non-WASP leisure?
Ian