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such a deal for you
You can sell anything. Everything is negotiable. RIP Ziggy. Zig Ziglar, an American original that harks back to the old Yankee salesman, something out of Constance Rourke’s Americana treasury and Herman Melville and that old American archetype “the untrustworthy narrator.” … Continue reading
kingfish on the hustings
You have to wonder if this new phenomenon called Americans.select.org is an effort to establish a technocracy rule in the United States, something that Thorstein Veblen felt would be the inevitable consequences of a capitalism as it became increasingly complex … Continue reading
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Tagged american political satire, americanselect, americanselect.org, Constance Rourke, elliott ackerman, future 101 blogspot, Guy Debord, Herman Melville, jackie and dunlap, jackie broyles, James Gillray, john dewey, jonathan shockley, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, mitt romney bain capital, mitt romney new hampshire, Randy Newman, thomas friedman new york times, Thorstein Veblen, travis harmon
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new forms for old feeling
Profit as evidence of god’s approval for the sacred project of America buffeting the shock between business and piety, lucre and morality. The Emersonian chosen people, selected, picked for a special destiny. Many are called, few are frozen; a form … Continue reading
catching a falling knife
Herman Cain. The dandy and the legacy of Amos n’ Andy. The Hermanator experience. The old black minstrel show adjusted for free market ideology. Another figure in a long tradition of American snake oil salesmen rising from the depths of … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Jolson, Bell Hooks, Bill Maher, boyce watkins, Charles Baudelaire, Constance Rourke, Edgar Allan Poe, herman cain, Herman Melville, Holly Sklar, Jean Genet, jim crow, jon stewart, julius lester, mark harris Z communications, mel watkins, Noam Chomsky, shirley temple, snoop doggy dog, the hermanator experience, thomas rice, Walter Benjamin
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storyteller: the way they were….
From a Rick Salutin piece that appeared in the Toronto Star. I am barely old enough to remember this comedy duo written about by the author but I remember sensing their spirit, vulnerability, insecurity, defiance and basic goodness that made … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur goldreich, Constance Rourke, denis goldberg, emmanuel levinas, joseph heath, Martin Buber, Nicolas Poussin, nikolai leskov, Rembrandt, Rick Salutin, the avalanches frontier psychologist, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin, wayne and shuster
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the lost decade: a hang five for prosperity
Socially, politically and economically, we are entering uncharted waters. We appear to be at the cusp on some major transformations. The issues are rather complex, seemingly beyond the comprehension of the present crew of economic advisers. The result is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, Constance Rourke, henri Bergson, IBM Watson, Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, Nouriel Roubini, Paul Krugman, robert a. heinlein, Robert Crumb, technological unemployment, U.S. Economics, xaviera simmons, Yogi Berra
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mailer: writer with a loud hailer
Norman Mailer’s The White Negro from 1957.The search for rebels of his generation led to the hipster. A prophetic inquiry into violence and rebellion? Or a basic re-packaging of his Harvard education into its logical extension which was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Jolson, Allen Ginsberg, Constance Rourke, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Breslin, Lou Reed, mezz messrow, Norman Mailer, patti smith, Peter Max, rachael carson, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Vance Packard
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individualism as a performance art
Can we ever be free of conformity or is it just, as in Atlas Shrugged, part of what John Galt says, “part of escaping the necessity of choice.” Is the idea of making a choice, making decisions, a form of conformity? … Continue reading
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Tagged alex knapp, Andrew Potter, Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand, Constance Rourke, david rieff, Edward Bernays, George Orwell, henry rollins, Herman Melville, joseph heath, paul leinberger, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen
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one of the boys: men in long black coats
John Lennon was once quoted as saying that Bob Dylan was intentionally opaque in his lyrics so as to position himself as “secure in his hipness”. It is often taken that Dylan provided the Beatles with the understanding of depth, … Continue reading
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Tagged andy greene, anthony scaduto, art blog, Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Camille Paglia, Charles Baudelaire, Constance Rourke, elliot mintz, Greil Marcus, Heinrich Heine, henry timrod, james damiano, jann s. wenner, jann wenner, John Lennon, johnny cash, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joni Mitchell, joseph heath, Larry Charles, robert shelton, scott warmuth, Steve Jobs, Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, William Burroughs
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