[lbo-talk] Regression to Adolescence [was lumpen]

[joanna]

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>Woj writes:
>My beef is not really with the genre itself, some of which seems
>interesting, especially when it fuses with reggae, but with how it is being
>used in this country's culture: a silly regression to adolescence that seem
>to dominated the US pop culture and use music (not just rap, but rock in
>general) for its in-your-face shock value - as an obnoxious noise and an
>expression of male aggression rather than an art form.  
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This regression to adolescence only appears as a regression relative to 
other eras. In fact, the mindset of the adolescent captures the 
capitalist gestalt perfectly and represents its highest goals: you want 
what you want when you want it, never mind the cost, and fuck everybody. 

 No sense of responsibility to anything except gratifying the 
instinctual or conditioned impulse of the moment. This is veiwed as 
"freedom."

Pathetic and dangerous.

Joanna