Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Norfolk, VA
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Actually I'm not sure if Curtis White of Illinois State University is really all that liberal. He's an academic, for which in so many circles liberalism is a prerequisite...anyway, his book The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think For Themselves is, I assure you all, well worth your time and $24.

The basic premise is White's theory of the "middle mind," which is sort of a management system for culture and art and all the urges that should lead us to rage against machines but which instead are turned inward so that we find the banality of NPR's Fresh Air to be some sort of interesting dialogue on culture instead of the radiofecal matter it is.

Give me a couple of weeks to go through it and I'll be glad to loan it out.

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Registered: May 2002
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i resent anything being posted in this half-assed forum... this is like having the colored people sit in the back of the bus.. im going to pull a rosa parks and boycott this book shit, as should you.

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Registered: Oct 2001
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You give the appearance of having done that years ago.

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Registered: May 2002
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it took me two months to get that joke, but i'm wise to your tomfoolery now, boy!

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Registered: Sep 2000
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Did squee ever pass this book on? I'd love to read it and send it to someone else.

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