> >
> > I agree with the rest of what you said, but the isolationism and
> > pastoralism are real strands in a lot of "anti-globalist" thinking. It's
> > quite popular in the International Forum on Globalization orbit, for
> > example.
> >
> > Doug
>
> Tom Wolfe once said in reference to his book "The Electric Kool Aid Acid
> Test" that Tim Leary said 'Turn on, tune in, drop out' but Kesey said take
> all the glitter and hype and make something better out of it, and that
> Kesey
> was right but no one noticed at the time.
>
I guess my thought, which has proven pretty difficult to get to the point that i can state it clearly, in response to Doug's comment was that while he's right that isolationist pastoralism resides on the left, its a clearly contradictory leftism and its romanticism and anti-intellectualism has been pretty well obliterated by folks from Marx to Bookchin, Galeano, Haraway and beyond... overstating the case, perhaps, sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just stupid...
In response to Bob's follow up, and at the risk of taking the conversation further afield, could we see Leary the progenitor of Hardt and Negri's argument that those within "the multitude" who've given up hope are acting politically and contributing to some sort of structurally inescapable coming collapse? If so, I am sortsa with Kesey. I may have misunderstood Empire and The Multitude but both - while they taught me a good bit - absolutely drove me up a tree.