"More than Elvis and Little Richard, who at least freaked out the older generation, Paul Anka and Neil Sedaka were perceived as bigger threats to the USSR precisely because they represented a complete absence of revolutionary potential. In a society in which everything was about politics and ideology, the most revolutionary act was to simply ignore politics and ideology, if only for a few minutes."Sounds familiar doesn't it?
The post-modern left in the West is politicising EVERYTHING.
You can't go to the footy and not be assaulted by political arm-twisting, you can't go to school these days and avoid ideological influences even the movies are loaded with ideological baggage. Conservative commentators are whingeing about it but no one points to the similarities with the old Soviet Union under communism.
Does this mean that we are a trip and a lurch away from becoming like the commissar ridden Soviet Union? I sure hope not but given that 40% of American youth (probably the same number of Australian youth..or more!) would rather live under a socialist government I don't see us avoiding it.
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