South Park Conservatives

It's official, The NRO thinks South Park's brand of facile clichéd PC-ridicule is "brilliant."  Then again, when the competition is Family Guy they may well be right.  Of course both shows only perform an endless thematization of the so-called "culture wars", that while posing as an elaborate attempt to have done with them, in the process only ends up naturalizing their walled horizons.  What could possibly be less interesting than a week of such TV?  You guessed it, a forced feud between the two.  To briefly channel Brad Delong, why oh why must we live in a world whose distinctive Americanization means to thrive on creating cheap and needless, cruel antagonisms?  Are we that bored?  (Whether you watch it or not, the idiot box may still be in your mind!)  Ah well, thank God for comedy.

Meanwhile the real real world spins on, waiting for something, growing heavier by the hour, and with only privileged few allowed the dying breath of speech  instead of being spoken for, and as already dead.  And yet who amongst us is not sans-papiers, and not only with names that do not fit?  As the product of necessary abstraction, and as condition for future hope, no less?

Digby remarks on the boomer generation, being uptight, crazy and reactionary, and agrees with Yglesias that it needs to chill, to a degree.  Meanwhile Paul Krugman becomes the latest to bait the administration's smears.  But if you only click one link, let it be The Measures Taken, on the reissue of Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.