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Re: What is Neal smoking?
Great points, Tom. (& cool to hear from you, too!) I think Neal Gabler is a little close to Hollywood. He does, after all, work, however indirectly, for the entertainment industry himself (installed at the Annenberg School and all that). I think we're at a liminal time in history. The Industrial Age isn't quite over (it lives in hour heads, where it urges us to think new stuff with the same old metaphors). Whatever we call the age that succeeds it will be characterized, it seems, by a great deal more personal autonomy, I fantasize of the sort Whitman expressed 1.5 centuries ago, when he blew grit in our chops and urged us to feel the truths in ourselves. I get far more useful news from other folks's weblogs than from the old industrial "channels." Speaking of smartypants and the fratboy, Willie Brown put it best when he called it a choice between "the insufferable and the incompetent." And yeah, the cabinet choices are mighty creepy. There are responses to this message:
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