[lbo-talk] Cultural Change?

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>As I said, the sixties were a great time to be young, and I miss the 
>>exuberance of that time.  Regrettably, most of the real goofing around 
>>I've done has been in adulthood in the service of Corporate America.  BTW, 
>>I'm not sure it's such a good thing that "parents and children get along 
>>with each other better than they did a generation or two ago" -- I'd like 
>>to see a lot more rebelliousness on the part of young people today.
>
>And it doesn't matter that women are less oppressed, many men less 
>distorted by the need to be "masculine," that black people can vote and go 
>to college in more than token numbers, that gay bars aren't raided by the 
>cops, etc. etc.?

Not much.  On the first point, for instance, greater participation of women 
in executive ranks has simply proved that women can be the same 
mega-assholes in business that men can be.  Ditto women in the military; it 
was very impressive seeing that at least one female US soldier joined in 
sexually taunting those Iraqi POWs.

All US identity-group "progress" has proved a distraction from the fact that 
the system itself has to be changed in a very fundamental way.  The US is a 
heavily armed nation in a state of virtually psychotic hostility toward the 
rest of the world.  Given that commanding fact, it is solipsistic to focus 
on gains that various demographic groups have made within the US.

Carl

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