Torgeir,
I can’t recall who all referenced articles from the U.S. edition of the
Guardian in the past, but its robot has noticed that I have “read more than 8
articles in the last four months.” Earlier I put the robot to the test after it
convicted me of having read more than 7 articles in the last four months. Just
now I revisited the same article and it declared I had read more than 8. The
reason it does this, it says in yellow highlight is to work upon my conscience
to “Support the Guardian from as little as $1 – it only takes a minute. Thank
you.”
Be that as it may, while dutifully sequestering myself during the covid-19
pandemic, I have subscribed to a few additional publications. I have not been
terribly impressed with the British edition of the Guardian in the past, but as
long as I am being importuned I might as well give it some thought. It seems
very critical of American news reporting of any sort and declares itself, in
effect, “more robust.” But if they are so robust why do they need my “from as
little as $1”? [not quite sure about the grammar of this request – maybe it’s a
British thing].
Does the U.S. edition of the Guardian operate from within the U.S., or does it
observe us from afar?
I took some time after reading the Guardian article to consider
anti-establishment movements of the past. I suppose I’ve always been critical
of them because the “movement” I grew up being interested in was World War II
and couldn’t wait (literally) to join the Marine Corps (I tried to quit school
at age 16 so as not to miss the war in Korea, but the Marines found me out and
told me to come back when I was 17 – with my mother’s approval). Thus, after
serving only one hitch, I left USMC with the rank of sergeant to enter college
and encounter the “Beat generation.” Perhaps that sentence is enough to
explain why I never took that counter-cultural movement seriously. I did read
Kerouac’s On the Road and tried a bit of Ginsberg’s Howl but they seemed poor
fare. This movement was apparently absorbed by the Hippies [there was Vietnam
in the midst of that – maybe absent Mike Geary we don’t need to revisit that].
I can’t recall if there was anything comparable between Hippies and Punk.
With earlier movements I felt obligated to come to terms. I couldn’t simply
dismiss them without having justification, but I apparently overcame that qualm
in the case of the Punks.
Lawrence
From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Torgeir Fjeld
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2020 3:32 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] The man without a theory
We read in the mass media about the eminently practical (and thence, at least
to *some* poster at this list, truthful) Malcolm McLaren that he, in the end,
would preface his performance thus:
I have been called many things: a charlatan, a conman, or, most flatteringly,
the culprit responsible for turning British popular culture into nothing more
than a cheap marketing gimmick. This is my chance to prove that these
accusations are true.
A truly perverted approach!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/06/the-life-and-times-of-malcolm-mclaren-by-paul-gorman-review-punks-king-of-chaos
Mvh. / Yours sincerely,
Torgeir Fjeld <https://torgeirfjeld.com/>
~~ ereignis <https://ereignis.no/> : taking you to who you are ~~
