12-13-2016, 11:12 AM
(12-11-2016, 07:30 PM)Dill Wrote: Playboy made point of including good fiction and non-fiction. Also, the interviews were often of historical import--e.g., with Castro, Norman Mailer, Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Ali, Lincoln Rockwell. The philosophy never impressed me much. Just progressive liberalism before the civil rights movement embraced women, gays, and immigrants. They embraced counter-cultural fashions and supported de-criminalization of marijuana, if not the cultural critique of excess consumption. It was the kind of magazine in the late 60s and early 70s with that one common denominator that could be enjoyed by people as different as Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
Progressive liberalism always impresses me, especially when it is 40 years ahead of the curve.
Your take raises the question, are Trump and Clinton as different as they seem? Perhaps not. Perhaps both are smart, self-indulgent centrists, whose own appetites are their undoing. Of course one is better at hiding the smarts than the other, although BC does a pretty good folksy aw shucks too.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
