... the sheer unlikelihood of an historical event is no indicator, let alone guarantee, of its desirability. Adolf Hitler's career was as unlikely as Castro's, and Goebbels's as unlikely as Guevara's, but we would regard a dual biography of Hitler and Goebbels that left us in doubt as to the author's attitude to his subjects as unsatisfactory.What impresses me about Castro and Guevara is how bourgeois - in the worst sense of the word - they were. In fact, one of the most overlooked developments in cultural history is the extent to which the bourgeoisie has co-opted bohemia. All the limousine liberals I know are bohemians at heart. This, more than anything else I can think of, explains the dessication of what passes these day for an avant-garde. Of course, bohemia was the invention of the disaffected among the bourgeois. Now that disaffection has itself become fashionable and ... utterly bourgeois.
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Horrific duo ...
... False Icons.
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I never really got what was wrong with "limousine liberals." Like, if you're rich you have to be conservative?
ReplyDelete... none of which reduces the pleasure I get - time and again - from La Boheme!
ReplyDeleteLimousine Liberals, Frank, are another version of rich hippies. I worked for the latter several times during my checkered career. I'd prefer an old-time robber baron. Oh wait. There isn't any difference. The LL would like you to think he isn't voting his class, because he favors, for instance, higher taxes(which his tax lawyer will take care of). Anyway, my point is that the LL's liberalism is as bourgeois as any other of his other fashion statements.
ReplyDeleteI'm with on that, Jeff!
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