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Tag Archives: Horatio Alger
to tell or not to tell
Its hardly a new problem. Racism seems inextricably bound up with our economic structure, and with ideology, what Veblen termed “invidious comparison” that clarified the complexities between dominated and subjugator such that it is almost inconceivable to think of market … Continue reading
SOME THINGS MONEY CAN’T BUY
In a sense it was an ideology of corporatism. Horatio Alger was attributed a philosophy which was whittled down to its commonest denominator in mass media. Success manuals touted bourgeoisie values: hard work, frugality, loyalty to employers. If a man … Continue reading
RAGGED, TATTERED & PLUCK OUT OF LUCK
Rejection as a virtue. Horatio Alger. His fable of the noble orphan who found a rich Daddy appealed to boys of all ages. The question is how did it ever get mixed up with the American myth of success? There … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged A.K. Loring, Charles O'Connor, Children's Literature, Childrens Books, Elise Monselet, Harvard Divinity School, Henri Murger, Herbert R. Mayes, Horatio Alger, Oliver Optic, Una Garth, Victor Hugo
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LSD- THE LONG SLOW DISTANCE OF WOODSTOCK NATION
An antipathy to the material world and to the world of government, order discipline, and force went beyond a form of heresy. It is a constant theme in most religions. Think of Saint Francis, the son of a prosperous merchant, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Ange Lee, Bobby Seale, Carlos Castaneda, Cesar Chavez, Dave Dellinger, Horatio Alger, Michael Wadleigh, Oscar Wilde, Rimbaud, Ron Paul, Saint Francis, Taking Woodstock, The Chicago Seven, The Quakers, The Ranters, The Reformation, Thomas Webbe, William S. Burroughs, Woodstock 1969, Woodstock documentary, Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Yogi Berra
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