"And who, moreover, could measure the success or failure in an adventure so singular, so unprecedented as that? You're not marching on the Pentagon, and tried be stopped as if this was the link of a master plan to take step to the bastions of the republic; no, that kind of iron logic of the next step was for the men the FBI. One more good going because ... because ... (And here the reasons were many and so curious and so vague, such as primary policies and that there was no need, or perhaps able, to speak further about it, all I could do was ruminating on a matter before the morning coffee ) ... "
" ... Its radicalism lay in contempt for authority, for this generation that the manifestation of evil incarnate. It was the authority that had sown the land of those suburbs where these young children lost their breath before the film westerns, with the affable celebrity TV insipid, their minds had been punctured, Hurghada, harassed, and finally spurred probed ways to produce surreal response to advertising inserted in the spaces suddenly dramatic, while their parents are constantly changing from one chain to another ... I wanted to or not, had been forced to build his idea of \u200b\u200bspace-time continuum (and thus, its own nervous system) from leaps and bounds and cracks and ruptures, that every phenomenon of the media seemed to contain within it .
"The authority had operated in their brains with commercials, they had been brainwashed educated preserved, preserved with politics. There had been themselves as honorable, but it was corrupt, as corrupt as the bribes that come on TV, the scandals over the safety of cars, awards of contracts for aviation ... "
" ... This new generation Finally, hated authority, because it was lying. Lying in the mouth of corporate executives, cabinet spokesman, police officers, newspaper editors and advertising agencies. And lying in mass publications, in which more subtle apology for the disaster of the authority (and the most neat distortion of the news) were recorded with the best styles in the mind always open American lobotomized ordinary ... "
" ... Its radicalism lay in contempt for authority, for this generation that the manifestation of evil incarnate. It was the authority that had sown the land of those suburbs where these young children lost their breath before the film westerns, with the affable celebrity TV insipid, their minds had been punctured, Hurghada, harassed, and finally spurred probed ways to produce surreal response to advertising inserted in the spaces suddenly dramatic, while their parents are constantly changing from one chain to another ... I wanted to or not, had been forced to build his idea of \u200b\u200bspace-time continuum (and thus, its own nervous system) from leaps and bounds and cracks and ruptures, that every phenomenon of the media seemed to contain within it .
"The authority had operated in their brains with commercials, they had been brainwashed educated preserved, preserved with politics. There had been themselves as honorable, but it was corrupt, as corrupt as the bribes that come on TV, the scandals over the safety of cars, awards of contracts for aviation ... "
" ... This new generation Finally, hated authority, because it was lying. Lying in the mouth of corporate executives, cabinet spokesman, police officers, newspaper editors and advertising agencies. And lying in mass publications, in which more subtle apology for the disaster of the authority (and the most neat distortion of the news) were recorded with the best styles in the mind always open American lobotomized ordinary ... "
(Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night, 1968)
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