On Feb 24, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> And the whole direct action
> mystique that his ethnographic accounts created was gone - it turned
> into yet another variation on the All-American self-made mythology.
And it evidently leads to fanciful versions of history, where the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were caused by the largely nonexistent successes of Seattle etc. And the antinuke movement led to the wars in Central America. And civil rights led to Vietnam. 9/11, PNAC, the Sandinistas, the Commies disappear. This is a fresh take on American exceptionalism.
Doug