[lit-ideas] Re: lit-ideas Digest V1 #123
- From: atri2715@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (at)
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 13:27:30 -0500
>In the Silicon Valley, the consensus among friends is
>that the long-term is over in the USA. The future is no longer in the USA.
The Christian extremists will continue to take over the country....We are
watching the bedrock of the USA turn into sand and wash away.
Things rise and fall for a reason. The majority of people rejected the
liberal candidate, as they said, on "moral" grounds. The rise in Christian
extremism, so bewildering to us, must also have a reason. What do you think
that reason is? Look at the polls of November 2 and you may find some
reasons there. A couple of hundred thousand undecided voters in Ohio could
have made a big difference; yet something made those voters go the other
way. What do you think it was?
I mean, with all due respect for academia, white suburban husbands and wives
have been ridiculed for generations in scholarly publications and literary
criticism as if they were the very personification of self-delusion (the
"breeders"). Just go to an MLA convention and peruse, just peruse. How do
you think people feel about that over in Ohio, raising their kids and trying
to put bread on the table? Being married and having a child, changes the
equation a little bit; it kind of complicates the idea of liberalism a bit.
The world, is, after all, crazy. Some, understandably, may find it all a bit
too much.
I think that Al Gore once talked about a "cold civil war" going on in this
country. It seems that this was the great theme of the election and that
the media missed out on it. We focused on Iraq, the economy, etc. when the
voters were concerned with issues of cultural management, and voted
accordingly. This is an American thing. It is, incidentally, hard for
Europeans to relate to this "cold civil war" situation existing here, though
not impossible.
Alex T
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