John Young on Thu, 7 Jan 2021 22:19:29 +0100 (CET)


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Yesterday was thrilling for its replication of 1968 in challenging status quo across many stolidities of thought, behavior, belief, acceptance, complaint, compliance, modest defiance, embrace of bipartisanship, hypnotic left-right cum socialist-capitalist ifatuous deology, intellectual vacuity secured by tenure and perquisites, condescension toward the unlearned, prattling of stale truisms, idle sophistry of argument, ample funding of compendia of little read volumes of propriety and profiteering.

68 tipped the rancid tub of placidity and before injection of precarity entered the cliche-driven market, there were a few years of turmoil, some fatalities at Kent State and the West Village, a few break-ins at FBI offices and blood splatterings at military bases, levitation of the Pentagon, trials of celebrity dissidents, police bombings of Philly rowhouses, seeds of feminism implanted, sexual liberation of birth control narcotics. All this before the aging rebels were enlisted by academia to herd the young upcoming teens into chutes of branding and alumnae funding.

The Capitol Liberation, brief as it was, got widespread media play almost effortlessly, followed by resulsive outpouring of opportunistic bray about democracy at risk, which by today had become as stale, rancid and deflated of novelty and significance as days before the Georgia election.

Congress pulled an all-nighter then left town with nothing to show for the squeals of rhetoric about Capitol Police failure, 25th Amendment, impeachment, clipping Trump's social media wings, amounting to who the fuck cares, let's get back to Covid-19 agoniste.

Is January 2021 to finally supplant May 1968 as navel gazing of the best and brightest (cliches abundant)? Sleepy Joe and silent Kamala do not appear to be prepared to combat Pence pardoning Trump than Gerald Ford Nixon. Bring up the bodies even if QAnon and ilk.

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