[lbo-talk] blog post: a nation in decline, part 2: signs of distress

[Chuck Grimes]

CB: Everybody has their own version because  they must publish "original" 
ideas. If they moved to consensus, they'd be admitting lack of original 
ideas.  There's extreme anarchy of intellectual production in the US. ( I 
have deja vu on this exchange with Chuck)

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This was pretty funny. Would the real Marxists on LBO, please raise their 
hands. That was my first thought. I've forgotten the deja vu part. Please 
remind me.

But there is something to this publish `original' ideas. I was supposed to 
have an `original' art style at 25. By 27 I got lucky and found some work of 
friends down in LA, the Berkeley faculty had never seen and copied the basic 
approach. Voila, got my degree.

That trick didn't work with the gallery I tried up here, because the woman 
who ran it, knew the guys down in LA, and started listing them by name... 
bummer, back to the garage. The trick is to find a `something' and turn it 
into a brand. Of course once you get this brand, and its a success of some 
sort, then you have to keep doing it over and over. The same thing goes for 
the music scene...

CG