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the bulldozer: stop making sense

Ariel Sharon’s Samson Option rant. It definitely falls into the category of “Nice guys finish last.” He’s being interviewed here by Amos Oz who is in the deep left of political ideologies. When the Zionists cleared the swamps, he chose … Continue reading

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merry pranksters: Joke on who?

The hippie culture will never die. It seems like we have to keep immortalizing it, reinventing it in some way in order to make a buck off it. Whatever its almost Durkheim inspired alturistic origins and optimism for a kinder, … Continue reading

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d.i.y. pranksters: staying on the bus

“Do your own thing.” Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” -The Diggers. Eventually, hippies were being attacked and vilified both in the media and physically by punks, skinheads and right-wing reactionaries and other youth sub-cultures. … Continue reading

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praises of folly: flights of reason

Is a flight from reason to be deplored or hailed? Is the flight from reason a social pathology of apocalyptic proportions….There was an importance in protesting problems such as Vietnam, Racial equality,and income inequality among other ills, but it can … Continue reading

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SOCIAL CLASS THEORY: Breaking Through the Skin of Human Culture

August Sander photographed German citizens from all classes and walks of life. Rich, poor, men, women, revolutionaries, artists, tramps, professionals, children, laborers, Communists, Social Democrats, Anglo Saxons, Gypsies,Nazis and Negroes stood or sat squarely in front of his camera, fully … Continue reading

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