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I find the perspective my eye-glass is one where politics that doesn't primarily act on behalf of the markets and corporate interests, having been excised from effective political life in most Western countries, is now slowly and insiduously dropping out of the vocabulary of its artistic and intellectual life, as more and more people come to the fore who are only interested in developing careers for themselves, reflecting in a weak way the money and fame culture that the masses (that's all of us, by the way) are bombarded with from childhood on. So in that perspective far right movements become ominously full of potential, as the left is abandoned as being out of date, an old hat nobody but old jeremiads like Chomsky would wear. On 23 April 2010 03:46, Uche Ogbuji <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > I never claimed the Age gloried in great prose writers, or even > > thinkers. Just offering it up as an aside. > > > > Fair enough. I just think that sometimes commentators overreact to what is > indeed an phenomenon with some ugly characteristics, and that perspective > actually helps lessen the power of the worst bits. > > > -- > Uche Ogbuji http://uche.ogbuji.net > Founding Partner, Zepheira http://zepheira.com > Linked-in profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ucheogbuji > Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/ > TNB: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/uogbuji/ > Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/uche > Twitter: http://twitter.com/uogbuji > http://www.google.com/profiles/uche.ogbuji > -- David Bircumshaw "A window./Big enough to hold screams/ You say are poems" - DMeltzer Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/