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Our civilized demand is for scientific discussions of everything. The socialist realism that dominated the literate U.
Those who resisted were sent to die in Kolyma or locked away in psychiatric hospitals. An unpublished poem on Stalin's "cockroach whiskers" brought to the attention of the Kremlin by informers was the cause of Osip Mandelstam's death.
Despots do not accept the autonomy of the literary imagination. Freedom of the imagination, dangerous to them, is related to the independence of the soul. This independence is not peculiar to artists, it is common to all human beings. In any reasonably open society, the absurdity of a petty thought-police campaign provoked by the inane magnification of "discriminatory" remarks about the Papuans and the Zulus would be laughed at.
To be serious in this fanatical style is a sort of Stalinism -- the Stalinist seriousness and fidelity to the party line that senior citizens like me remember all too well. In the U. In the days of Mark Twain, of Mr. Dooley and H.
Mencken, we were still able to kid ourselves. Mencken's wicked jokes on Boobus Americanus -- his term for the average man -- had a salutary influence on the discussion of public questions and on public behavior. Sometimes crude, openly prejudiced but often very funny, he banged away at the professors, the politicians and the Jim Crow South. But fanatics and demagogues had far less influence in those pre-sensitive days. Child gangsters did not then kill the kids who "dissed" them.
Rage is now brilliantly prestigious. Rage, the reverse of bourgeois prudence, is a luxury. Rage is distinguished, it is a patrician passion.
The rage of rappers and rioters takes as its premise the majority's admission of guilt for past and present injustices, and counts on the admiration of the repressed for the emotional power of the uninhibited and "justly" angry.
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