[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

[andie nachgeborenen]

Is that Protestantism in particular or American anti-intellectualism, especially working class variety. My experience of Catholics (personal life, attending Catholic school [don't ask], dating a lot of Catholic girls) is that they're) is that they are no different. 

Minimalist aesthetic? I'm Zen, so you betcha. I wish I could aspire to it. At this point I just admire it.

--- On Sun, 9/20/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Signs of the times
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 12:46 PM
> 
> On Sep 20, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Michael McIntyre wrote:
> 
> > Well, there can be a minimalist aesthetic.  Think
> Shaker furniture.
> > And don't forget that part of the Protestant austerity
> was
> > egalitarian.  The absence of an altar literally
> puts minister and
> > congregation on the same level.  But, most
> importantly of all, you're
> > omitting Protestantism's musical side.  Luther
> wrote hymns.  Bach was
> > a Lutheran.
> 
> I said *American* Protestantism. Neither Luther nor Bach
> qualifies (though Bach drew some on the Latin liturgy, e.g.,
> The B Minor Mass).
> 
> But big chunks of the American Proddie tradition are
> anti-aesthetic and anti-intellectual. Sarah Palin didn't
> come out of nowhere.
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