If anything in this essay reflects badly on Empirican white-collar culture, I do not absolve myself of hypocrisy. On the contrary, I admit that I have practically benefited from that culture and, rightly or wrongly, […]
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Cars and the Power Cult
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 […]
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The Rise of the Jerk in Tights
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 […]