[lbo-talk] Memorial Day

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue May 29 13:34:40 PDT 2007


Dennis:

Maybe. It's hard to say because porn is routinely given a bad rap here and hallmark is not. Why do people feel an obligation to separate porn as something particularly deplorable, a position that is presented as pretty much a given? Then when that position is questioned.....ah, the topsy-turvy world of evading an issue.

[WS:] Let's see. Joanna posted a quip juxtaposing porn and a patriotic symbol, which I thought was witty. Doug responded with a question what was wrong with porn. I responded with a straightforward answer to that question. Then you weighed in by asking how porn is different from other commodity. To which I again responded that it is not that much different, and added a quip hinting at the lunacy of the countercultural tropes that routinely give mainstream institutions (of which hallmark is one) a bad rap, but glorify similar institutions marketed as "countercultural." So where is the evasion of an issue? Should I be more blunt and say that counterculturalism is but a bunch of infantile hot air? Happy now?

Wojtek



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