--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski
> wrote:
>
> > the US is a deeply petit bourgeois society – where
> the nauseous
> > mixture of small town insularity, distrust of
> outsiders, public
> > displays of piety and sanctimonious
> self-righteousness and
> > jingoistic populism rule the day and dominate
> public discourse.
>
> Yes, it has been - which, by the way, is one of the
> reasons I think
> it's unfair to denounce Hofstadter as a "consensus"
> historian,
> because a lot of what he wrote is true, whiie the
> left historians
> were busy exaggerating popular resistance - but a
> lot of that is a
> holdover that survives as fantasy, while the
> underlying reality has
> changed a lot. And a lot of us live in metropolitan
> areas, are
> secular and/or gay (or have a gay cousin), have an
> open and
> cosmopolitan attitude towards the outside world.
> This cartoon doesn't
> describe all of us, but those of us whom it doesn't
> describe still
> cut the xenophobes slack as representing The Real
> America. Fuck 'em.
> They don't.
>
> Doug
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