...one hardly has to go
to a poetry reading to see the countercultural idea acted out. Its frenzied
ecstasies have long since become an official aesthetic of consumer society, a
monotheme of mass as well as adversarial culture. Turn on the TV and there it
is instantly: the unending drama of consumer unbound and in search of an
ever-heightened good time, the inescapable rock 'n' roll soundtrack, dreadlocks
and ponytails bounding into Taco Bells, a drunken, swinging-camera epiphany of
tennis shoes, outlaw soda pops, and mind-bending dandruff shampoos. Corporate
America, it turns out, no longer speaks in the voice of oppressive
order.
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