Re: Subversive symbol?

["Max B. Sawicky" <maxsaw@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From:          valis <valis@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ===> Norman Solomon, reachable at mediabeat@xxxxxxxxxxx, is a writer
>      dedicated to alerting us about the perverse relationship between
>      politics and public language, a realm now almost wholly taken up
>      by the covert combat of spin doctors.  . . .

I like Solomon's work and haven't read his book, but
from your post it sounds like much ado about nothing.
I follow Dilbert religiously and never got the impression
that it was in great part supposed to be about corporate
downsizing.

Dilbert is funny because it's about the idiocy of
bureaucratic culture in general and the natural follies
people who happen to be in a corporate/technical
environment.  Note that most Dilbert strips could be about
workers in a public agency, a non-profit, or, for that
matter, a progressive think tank.

What a colossal waste of time to get diverted by this.

Next we'll have, 'why television cop shows aren't
revolutionary art.'  Oh wait.  We already did that.

MBS



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