During the recession of the late ’80s and early ’90s, big businesses were suffocating in their own fat, bloated from non-performance-related capital the Reagan Administration had funneled from public coffers in the form of deregulation, […]
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Indignant or Asinine?
It is the inalienable right of the individual to publicly demonstrate a feeling. No authority can prohibit it, no civil institution can enforce it. It’s simply a right we all have and exercise as a […]
Consumerism - Culture - Politics
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Self-Reliance: An Exorbitant Delusion
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 […]
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Where’s the Culture?
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 […]