American - Writer | December 14, 1941 - November 9, 2006
For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.
Ellen Willis
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The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.
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To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.
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What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.
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I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.
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