Ha! Whenever I ask that I get chided for requiring obsessive "footnoting" (or something).
The tenor of the debate is too McCarthy (cartoonish) for my tastes, really. I imagine K-punk to be a bit like the buffoon McCarthy parody in The Manchurian Candidate, which I guess makes Reynolds Angela Lansbury (you get the sense that his/her mind is elsewhere in the course of everyday attacks, and that a weirdly disinterested cynicism underlies most "ideological" stances...except I doubt that Reynolds, unlike Lansbury, actually belongs to the "other side" tho or I'd probably know where his popist locked LJ is by now). So koganbot is Frank Sinatra and Tom is poor, tortured Raymond and I might be the guy who gets hypnotized into shooting his pal in the face or something. (I imagine the Janet Leigh character is an amalgam of Poptimists whose underlying motives in conversation are never entirely clear -- which is, like, all of them.)
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Date: 2007-08-23 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-24 05:36 am (UTC)The tenor of the debate is too McCarthy (cartoonish) for my tastes, really. I imagine K-punk to be a bit like the buffoon McCarthy parody in The Manchurian Candidate, which I guess makes Reynolds Angela Lansbury (you get the sense that his/her mind is elsewhere in the course of everyday attacks, and that a weirdly disinterested cynicism underlies most "ideological" stances...except I doubt that Reynolds, unlike Lansbury, actually belongs to the "other side" tho or I'd probably know where his popist locked LJ is by now). So