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Cars and the Power Cult

Posted on: 01/31/200505/16/2024

I’m going to get me a carAnd I’ll be heading on down the roadThen I won’t have to worryAbout that broken-down, ragged Ford —Chuck Berry, “No Money Down” The automobile is the Empire’s most popular […]

Consumerism - Culture - Politics

The Rise of the Jerk in Tights

Posted on: 01/19/200505/16/2024

A guy with a couple of decades of office avoirdupois pumps up on his $3,000 touring bike, sporting about $500 worth of highly flammable stretch material in 15 garish colors, covered with the logos of […]

Art - Culture - Politics

Where’s the Culture?

Posted on: 12/10/200405/16/2024

Activism is now like poetry or philosophy. Few people take it seriously. These days the activist, like the poet or philosopher, has no public. And as the poet and philosopher have lost their power to […]

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