[lbo-talk] Re: Carville picks up the "narrative" idea

[John Mage]

Wojtsek asked:
> I think, btw, that there is something about the American collective psyche
> that feels an undying attraction to this kind of "wild west" stuff - which
> foreign observers, like myself, view with a mixture of bemusement and
> disbelief.  I mean, most folks who populate this country have their ancestry
> roots in the factories of New York, Baltimore and Chicago and coal mines of
> Pennsylvania.  Only a small handful of them were cowboys.  So if they are
> yearning for their roots, they should identify with workers and union
> organizers, not cowboys.  This whole pioneer/wild west thing is 100% made in
> Hollywood.  I find it hard to understand why it has such a strong
> attraction.

A good sketch of a (partial) answer by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz:
<http://www.monthlyreview.org/0703dunbarortiz.htm>

john mage