"Mad" Miles
01-12-2008, 09:43 AM
Dear Waccozephiles,
I thank my friend C B-K for forwarding the following to me.
Joel Bageant is always entertaining and one of the best contemporary commentators about American (U.S. and other) working class experience, from a position both inside (sympathetic) and the outside (critical, bohemian, "over-edicated"). He used to post on DissidentVoice.org, but hasn't lately.
Here's his latest:
https://www.worldnewstrust.com/commentary/ghosts-of-tim-leary-and-hunter-thompson-joe-bageant.html (https://www.worldnewstrust.com/commentary/ghosts-of-tim-leary-and-hunter-thompson-joe-bageant.html)
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Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson (Joe Bageant)
</TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"></TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"></TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="70%" colSpan=2>Written by Joe Bageant </TD></TR><TR><TD class=createdate vAlign=top colSpan=2>Thursday, 10 January 2008 </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2>
https://www.worldnewstrust.com/images/stories/joe%20bageant%20160.jpg
Joe Bageant
Freedom vs. Authority under the 40-foot pulsating rainbow vagina
By Joe Bageant -- World News Trust
Everything Americans think they know, they learned from a televised morality play. It's all theater. You root for some good guy and boo some bad guy. You pick your own, but you dance to the tune of the men running the show. It's mind control, pure and simple, and if there is an American immune to it, then he is probably living in a snow cave somewhere in Alaska.
-- Gypsy Joe Hess (1919-1988), prospector, self-educated philosopher and horse trader In my ragged-assed 40 years of writing, I've been lucky enough -- or sometimes unlucky enough -- to meet and write about many of America 's "somebodies," mostly vapid asshole movie and TV stars and rock musicians. When I was young, so-called "media journalism" then was just what it is now, what we called "starfucking," and amounted to writing PR for media corporations in "music journals" of the time. But we covered a few worthwhile iconic figures in the mix as well -- the kind that stick around in the background of one's thinking forever. At my age now, I find a lot of them are dying off, the Hunter Thompsons, Susan Sontags, Ken Keseys and Kurt Vonneguts. However, I have a self-imposed policy not to eulogize them because the hundreds of sentimental Internet tributes that flourish upon their deaths somehow seem ghoulish, and because it is a universal truth that we writers will do anything for an audience, and celebrity death is one of the easiest ways to attract one.
(Snip, go to URL for the rest.)
For all things Joe Bageant (https://www.joebageant.com/)
Speaking of DissidentVoice.org, the discussion of Ron Paul there is worth checking out.
Fock ON!
"Mad" Miles
:burngrnbounce:
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I thank my friend C B-K for forwarding the following to me.
Joel Bageant is always entertaining and one of the best contemporary commentators about American (U.S. and other) working class experience, from a position both inside (sympathetic) and the outside (critical, bohemian, "over-edicated"). He used to post on DissidentVoice.org, but hasn't lately.
Here's his latest:
https://www.worldnewstrust.com/commentary/ghosts-of-tim-leary-and-hunter-thompson-joe-bageant.html (https://www.worldnewstrust.com/commentary/ghosts-of-tim-leary-and-hunter-thompson-joe-bageant.html)
<TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD class=contentheading width="100%">
Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson (Joe Bageant)
</TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"></TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"></TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="70%" colSpan=2>Written by Joe Bageant </TD></TR><TR><TD class=createdate vAlign=top colSpan=2>Thursday, 10 January 2008 </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2>
https://www.worldnewstrust.com/images/stories/joe%20bageant%20160.jpg
Joe Bageant
Freedom vs. Authority under the 40-foot pulsating rainbow vagina
By Joe Bageant -- World News Trust
Everything Americans think they know, they learned from a televised morality play. It's all theater. You root for some good guy and boo some bad guy. You pick your own, but you dance to the tune of the men running the show. It's mind control, pure and simple, and if there is an American immune to it, then he is probably living in a snow cave somewhere in Alaska.
-- Gypsy Joe Hess (1919-1988), prospector, self-educated philosopher and horse trader In my ragged-assed 40 years of writing, I've been lucky enough -- or sometimes unlucky enough -- to meet and write about many of America 's "somebodies," mostly vapid asshole movie and TV stars and rock musicians. When I was young, so-called "media journalism" then was just what it is now, what we called "starfucking," and amounted to writing PR for media corporations in "music journals" of the time. But we covered a few worthwhile iconic figures in the mix as well -- the kind that stick around in the background of one's thinking forever. At my age now, I find a lot of them are dying off, the Hunter Thompsons, Susan Sontags, Ken Keseys and Kurt Vonneguts. However, I have a self-imposed policy not to eulogize them because the hundreds of sentimental Internet tributes that flourish upon their deaths somehow seem ghoulish, and because it is a universal truth that we writers will do anything for an audience, and celebrity death is one of the easiest ways to attract one.
(Snip, go to URL for the rest.)
For all things Joe Bageant (https://www.joebageant.com/)
Speaking of DissidentVoice.org, the discussion of Ron Paul there is worth checking out.
Fock ON!
"Mad" Miles
:burngrnbounce:
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