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Thomas Vorce reporting from Grass Valley, CA
Sunday, April 11, 2004
True liberalism costs a fortune and maybe that’s the reason why the poor are so overweight. Here’s my drift. To be a liberal you have to have the time to think. And thinking is definitely not allowed unless you live in a community where exchange with something else besides television is a real possibility. When you watch TV you get the message that you should be eating or working out. If you took the time to think you would have to live in a privileged environment to do it.
That would probably be a university town or a place like Santa Fe, New Mexico (it used to be Aspen.) Either way it’s going to be an expenditure of bucks to take part in that forum. We all know how much it costs to go to college and study something else besides business. Have you ever tried to get a job when you have a liberal education? There are lots of rich people in Santa Fe who can afford to go to liberal events that are sponsored by the Lannon Foundation. But I have been there and I have done that. And I saw very few of them get a zealotry behind their revelations that would mean a thing in communities that were media strongholds for the new right. I fear it creates a tendency to preach to the saved and in the end becomes an ivory tower.
People who are rich that get together in plush hotels don’t talk about Picasso, Mozart or any ‘new wave.” They talk about money, and how to get more of it. There’s no mystery here. It’s the only game in town and the only value that means anything in the hear and now.
Having just returned from a short vacation in Tucson, Arizona, I have to admit that there is an active jazz scene worthy of the hippest attention. But behind all that are Republicans at work to get a tax write off for death. These people are going to make it through the eye of the needle or die trying, and the rest of the world can take hind tit. Tubac, which was once an artist’s community, has become a bank-financed home of bad taste boutiques before the locals could even begin to call the air their own. As you head back to Tucson, you see a huge sign (where there are no others) saying “One Nation, Under God.” And if you look real close at the small print it says that the message is brought to you by Clear Channel. Clearly a tax right off.
Let’s hope it’s a God that doesn’t enjoy diversity in media. But, what the hell, he would probably be a liberal god and we can’t have that. The tax write off for death wouldn’t work and Arizona Republicans wouldn’t be able to corner the market on paradise and do a Dunn and Bradstreet rating on desert sunsets.
That would probably be a university town or a place like Santa Fe, New Mexico (it used to be Aspen.) Either way it’s going to be an expenditure of bucks to take part in that forum. We all know how much it costs to go to college and study something else besides business. Have you ever tried to get a job when you have a liberal education? There are lots of rich people in Santa Fe who can afford to go to liberal events that are sponsored by the Lannon Foundation. But I have been there and I have done that. And I saw very few of them get a zealotry behind their revelations that would mean a thing in communities that were media strongholds for the new right. I fear it creates a tendency to preach to the saved and in the end becomes an ivory tower.
People who are rich that get together in plush hotels don’t talk about Picasso, Mozart or any ‘new wave.” They talk about money, and how to get more of it. There’s no mystery here. It’s the only game in town and the only value that means anything in the hear and now.
Having just returned from a short vacation in Tucson, Arizona, I have to admit that there is an active jazz scene worthy of the hippest attention. But behind all that are Republicans at work to get a tax write off for death. These people are going to make it through the eye of the needle or die trying, and the rest of the world can take hind tit. Tubac, which was once an artist’s community, has become a bank-financed home of bad taste boutiques before the locals could even begin to call the air their own. As you head back to Tucson, you see a huge sign (where there are no others) saying “One Nation, Under God.” And if you look real close at the small print it says that the message is brought to you by Clear Channel. Clearly a tax right off.
Let’s hope it’s a God that doesn’t enjoy diversity in media. But, what the hell, he would probably be a liberal god and we can’t have that. The tax write off for death wouldn’t work and Arizona Republicans wouldn’t be able to corner the market on paradise and do a Dunn and Bradstreet rating on desert sunsets.
