[lbo-talk] America's singularly depraved culture

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sat Aug 22 22:30:12 PDT 2009


On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Doug Henwood wrote:


> > What Hughes was really referring to there was the depraved culture of
> > the 1980s art market. Which is true, but that whole scene is kind of
> > marginalized here now.
>
> I sorta miss that cultural depravity - it was sorta fun. Now, what do we
> have?

A 100 times more of it with less to-do? Attitudes toward porn have become so much more permissive in the last 25 years that Koons and Ilona could barely get noticed today, never mind make a splash.

Michael



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