[lbo-talk] me, in Truthdig: Our Delusions of Grandeur Will Save the World

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 16:42:59 PDT 2011


On 10/17/2011 5:18 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Elsewhere, the story of your generation:
> http://nymag.com/news/features/my-generation-2011-10/


> It’s not that this is a generation that doesn’t want to improve the
> world—been to a college activity fair lately?—but ours is a fractured
> involvement. The Cold War sort of settled which was the superior
> economic and political system, leaving youthful calls for revolution
> to be shouted in the context of gay rights and women’s rights and
> pro-Palestinian-hummus-in-the-campus-cafeteria demonstrations, which
> are really about improvements to the status quo, not a wholesale
> overthrow.



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