They're not done. There will be new combinations of ways to exploit and exacerbate popular fears and resentments. And what is caricatured here as "The Great Awokening" is not as triumphant as it is made out to be either. There may be neo-con/neo-libs, young and old, who "believe the battleground is in the arena of left-wing culture", just as there are knee-jerk leftists who believe the battleground is in the arena of hegemonic capitalism. My sense is that this way of conceiving the spectrum of political and cultural choices and possibilities has become almost completely irrelevant for understanding 21st-century needs, threats and opportunities. I say let them blather and wrangle away. There is urgent and meaningful work that needs to be done.
They're not done. There will be new combinations of ways to exploit and exacerbate popular fears and resentments. And what is caricatured here as "The Great Awokening" is not as triumphant as it is made out to be either. There may be neo-con/neo-libs, young and old, who "believe the battleground is in the arena of left-wing culture", just as there are knee-jerk leftists who believe the battleground is in the arena of hegemonic capitalism. My sense is that this way of conceiving the spectrum of political and cultural choices and possibilities has become almost completely irrelevant for understanding 21st-century needs, threats and opportunities. I say let them blather and wrangle away. There is urgent and meaningful work that needs to be done.