The challenge of writing something new, concise, and well documented using a vast array of newspaper articles that were published over a fifty year period seems daunting, to say the least. Concurrently reviewing information about writers and poets who felt that they were beat before they got their careers started, for a future column, conjures up comparisons to the old Myth of Sisyphus story.
The fact that all this is swirling around in the World's Laziest Journalist's "in box," while efforts are being made to coordinate information about attempts to revive the Occupy Wall Street series of political actions while a suspected war criminal is getting a heart transplant begins to overload the "current topics" circuits.
Could the fact that the Conservative noise machine is drowning out all the concerns about wealth inequality getting worse be compared to the battle the Beats had in various courts for using words that were condemned for being "Obscene!"?
Could the uphill fight use the pod people in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" as a basis for a comparison the futility of fighting the tsunami of Fox Propaganda? Isn't trying to warn members of the proletariat that they seem to be voting against their own welfare when they vote Republican a lot like Dr. Miles J. Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) trying to convince his town that something bad is happening? Isn't the blank look response in both cases identical?
Since this column is being written in the city that was, for many year, Philip K. Dick's hometown, could we channel him to cook up a science fiction column describing how it would have been if the Beat writers had time traveled back to Berlin in 1935? Didn't William L. Shirer describe in one of his books about life during the Third Reich era how Hitler told his associates when they entered the Chancellor's office, that when he final left there they would carry him out on his shield? Isn't that how the Republicans view their "mandate"?
The Bonus Army, Beatniks, and OWS protesters and the homeless seem to be connected by a long continuous series of aggravations for the ruling class.
Couldn't the never ending efforts of the wealthy to train the little people to pay their taxes and not complain be compared to the work Sisyphus was assigned?
Could the "stand your ground" law be compared to legalizing lynching?
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