I love it when James Lileks gets on a screedy roll. Here’s his reaction to a letter he read in his local paper up in Minneapolis:
I suspect that the ideas Kersten
addressed came from the sort of liberalism that swept out the old
anti-communist pro-America greatest-gen types in favor of
internationalist radicalism that sought to remake nearly every social,
intellectual, artistic and political institution in the culture. In
order to get the new utopia into place, nearly everything traditional
had to be detonated. The symphonic tradition gave way to atonalism, the
classical architectural vocabulary was jettisoned for acres of bleak
concrete bunkers, dead white males were swept from the ciriculuum, and
the family ? well, it could stay, as long as it wasn?t granted any
particular importance over other social models.
Gotta love it. Read his Bleats as well as his Screedblog daily. Nobody does it better.
