While we’re on the topics of deviance and stripping language of meaning, there’s another quote from Jerry Rubin’s “Do It!” that I think is really great. I don’t know if this is supposed to be a real or fictionalized conversation, but it works either way:
Cops enter an occupied university building to arrest students:
“You’re under arrest […]

LSD and counter-culture guru Timothy Leary has long been a fascination of mine. While he was instrumental in kick-starting all kinds of social changes, there is also hard evidence linking him to the FBI, if not the CIA as well. Needless to say, his actions and motives are both complicated and highly suspect when viewed […]

Maybe I’ve just been reading too much Jerry Rubin and Philip K. Dick lately, but I had a really vivid dream a couple of nights ago which related to a near-futuristic USA and a rebellion (and no, not the Chevrolet kind).
In the dream, I was part of a small band of revolutionaries. I no […]

There’s an old Time Magazine that somebody left in my bathroom. Kanye West is on the front cover, advertised as “More GQ Than Gangster” and on the back is a full page ad for the Chevrolet SS. Every time I look at it, all I see is their slogan: “An American Revolution.”
There’s a great passage […]

I saw X-Men: The Last Stand over the weekend and was sorely disappointed. I didn’t like the first X-Men movie; it seemed to never really get started. But I thought the second one was really awesome, so I had similarly high hopes for this one. Instead I was treated to a pretty vacuous plot line, […]