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...cultural revolution begun by affluent youth was carried forward by ordinary youth Today, the placards and protests are less evident in the streets, but no matter-- the streets themselves have changed. An intellectually subtle celebration of authenticity, group solidarity, and political direct action has left in its wake (perhaps prepared the way for) a kind of mindless incivility, a pervasive ruthlessness noted by Joan Didion when she observed "the extent to which the toleration of small irritations is no longer a trait much admired in America, the extent to which nonexistent frustration threshold is seen not as psychopathic...
...possible and that there is no one main direction and that artists should pursue their own independent visions with great sincerity and dedication and not be lumped into generic categories (characterizes the '70s). In the '60s it was possible to talk about Pop Art and know a whole group of artists that could be kept under that title...Or colorfield painting, which seemed to be a school. The were no schools in the '70s--it was anything is possible and lots of things are possible at the same time. Whether we'll see that trend continue I don't know...
...wish for the 80s: "a group of economists slightly less conscious about winning establishment applause. Economics is a historical process and policies must accomodate to historical process and policies must accomodate to historical change. Keynes's economics is not appropriate to a world of strong unions, large unions and big government, and Keynes is the last person in the world who would have expected...
Tooby has apparently failed to realize that sociobiological theory not only treats inter-group behavioral differences as genetic, but argues that racism, sexism and xenophobia are the genetic reactions to these differences. It is no accident, then, that a racist organization like the National Front in England would seize upon sociobiology to explain why whites should attack blacks...
...Tooby is also quite glib about labeling our group as Marxist. Had he investigated, he would have found that many of us in the Sociobiology Study Group would be quite unhappy with this characterization. To dismiss all criticism of sociobiology based upon a misrepresentation of the political stance of one segment of the critics is a mark of dishonesty...