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

[Eubulides]

On 10/17/2011 04:42 PM, SA wrote:
> 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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unFunny how slomo ecocide was something the cold war binary couldn't 
nail down.

The cold war settled nothing that matters in the 21st century.