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* Discussed and critiqued in the non-fiction book ''[http://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Sell-Culture-Cant-Jammed/dp/0006394914 The Rebel Sell]'' as part of the shifting values of the political left from old-school socialism to counterculture hipsterism, and how these values have fed the consumer culture they claim to resent. |
* Discussed and critiqued in the non-fiction book ''[http://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Sell-Culture-Cant-Jammed/dp/0006394914 The Rebel Sell]'' as part of the shifting values of the political left from old-school socialism to counterculture hipsterism, and how these values have fed the consumer culture they claim to resent. |
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* Similarly discussed in Thomas Frank's 2004 book ''What's the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America''. He charges that many of the U.S. political class's wealthy leftists are not really leftists at all; they are "libertarian" (which in American political parlance roughly equals "moderate conservative") opportunists who feign politically correct attitudes in order to appeal to more upscale (and ostensibly more sophisticated) urban and suburban voters in the "blue states". Conversely, those elites who live in the "red states" generally prefer to act like right-wing culture warriors in order to court the more downscale (and generally more traditionalist) constituents of America's conservative coalition. |
* Similarly discussed in Thomas Frank's 2004 book ''What's the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America''. He charges that many of the U.S. political class's wealthy leftists are not really leftists at all; they are "libertarian" (which in American political parlance roughly equals "moderate conservative") opportunists who feign politically correct attitudes in order to appeal to more upscale (and ostensibly more sophisticated) urban and suburban voters in the "blue states". Conversely, those elites who live in the "red states" generally prefer to act like right-wing culture warriors in order to court the more downscale (and generally more traditionalist) constituents of America's conservative coalition. |
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* ''[[1632]]'': Thomas "Stoner" Stone is a last-wave hippie, whose knowledge of chemistry (he made LSD in the sixties) has made him one of the richest men in Europe, with a personal fortune that rivals that of many nations. He is completely devoted to the ideals of peace, love and understanding, in word and deed. For example, he refuses payment for all medicines he makes, only making money from dyes and cosmetics. Profiting from people's vanity is OK, profiting from their pain is not. |
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