a paine brothers post pending else where in river city

“these past few weeks we have witnessed
the final articulation of 40 years of merit class identity politics
with the front running Dembo candidates for president :
senators cilnton and obama

with their rise to stardom
we have the end product of the better angels of a class
and end product as …. betrayal …as self contradiction
…. as the pious folk wish with the hideous unintended
brutal consquences

the vast goo goo ‘ me-boomer u profane’
post woodstock wave has crested

with this devoutly wished for result

this hollywood ending
behold

a women and a black man

but beware

the goddess of history is too mighty to be maudlin

this promise of a hollywood ending one way or the oother
is a fraud
a confection of hope
prepared in corporate kitchens
strictly for profit only

so go …go you better off boomers… .go out into the streets
…. go out and rage
against the candy coated nitemare machine

go darken not my door anymore
go and sin no more

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the real paradox of the merit mes

was their identity politics was in bulk
an identification with the other

as a better a more deserving self then one's own self

it was soul saving
of the self

that's the real me part
soul saving of the self
by rooting for the deserving other

like a juvenile audience at a matinee movie

whites for blacks

straights for queers

men for women

merits for blue collars

sivs for savages ....

the mass marketin merit self projections
was of course in the more basic stuff

women and blacks

latinos and amerinds trailing along

oddly the helot scumble of colloidal losers

was consigned to the trash compactor

mongrels need not apply for identification purposes

called trailer park whites and coffee with creams