Saw Easy Rider on the boob.....hacked to incomprehensibility of course...and what a bleak paranoid picture it painted. At the time I too believed that all those non-urbanites were killers. It is difficult to make sense of our states of mind at the time...it had to be more than just Vietnam. Perhaps we were the last generation when ideas were important. Now they seem like a luxury.
Lucia's Symposium
Lucia casts a wary eye on cultural infelicities, and dissents from all orthodoxies.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005
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