[lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?

[Michael Dawson]

BS, Carrol.  Your defense of typewriters is about telling as anything you've
ever written -- how would the monkeys know the difference if we Stalinists
committed them to techno-stasis?

Doug is as open a thinker as there is.  You might take a small dose of
inspiration from that aspect of his work.  Alas, you seem only to like the L
in LBO, and not for healthy reasons.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 1:18 PM
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?

Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > But the Andrews Sisters were so much better than anything you hear
today!
> >
> > Doug
>
> Oh great--now we'll receive a lecture from JKS about the inherent
> superiority of Cole Porter--
>

I wonder what the generation of 2050 will think of this age. Many of us
spun the dial when the Andrews Sisters came on, but sneering at them is
no better than Carl sneers at the present. Doug and Carl have the same
vulgar attitude towards the great unwashed, but with different temporal
subscripts.

There was no Golden Age from which the current age is a degeneration.

But Doug's version is just Golden-Age nostalgia turned upside down.

Carrol

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