>17. Art forms that appeal to modern leftist intellectuals tend to focus on sordidness, defeat and despair, or else they take an orgiastic tone, throwing off rational control as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation and all that was left was to immerse oneself in the sensations of the moment.
>44. But for most people it is through the power process-having a goal, making an AUTONOMOUS effort and attaining the goal-that self-esteem, self-confidence and a sense of power are acquired. When one does not have adequate opportunity to go throughout the power process the consequences are (depending on the individual and on the way the power process is disrupted) boredom, demoralization, low self-esteem, inferiority feelings, defeatism, depression, anxiety, guilt, frustration, hostility, spouse or child abuse, insatiable hedonism, abnormal sexual behavior, sleep disorders, eating disorders, etc
>57. The difference, we argue, is that modern man has the sense (largely justified) that change is IMPOSED on him, whereas the 19th century frontiersman had the sense (also largely justified) that he created change himself, by his own choice. Thus a pioneer settled on a piece of land of his own choosing and made it into a farm through his own effort. In those days an entire county might have only a couple of hundred inhabitants and was a far more isolated and autonomous entity than a modern county is. Hence the pioneer farmer participated as a member of a relatively small group in the creation of a new, ordered community. One may well question whether the creation of this community was an improvement, but at any rate it satisfied the pioneer's need for the power process.
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>>8381234
Grapes of Wrath appeals to modern leftist intellectuals, and it was pretty militant and victory-minded.
>>8381245
There are many post-apocalyptic persecution stories lefties latch onto these days, and with grapes of wrath, seizing the means of production is a group goal aiming for group rewards born out of the love for the duty to work.
>>8381234
Pynchon and Delillo did it better and survived.
>>8381650
Your falseflagging shitposting all across /lit/ grows seriously annoying, you know
>>8381643
>did it better
They weren't better at getting publicity.
>>8381650
do you think people think you're from /pol/?
>>8382982
People these days barely remember who the unabomber was.
>>8382997
He killed a bunch of people, you think people are going to dump money into preserving his story? He is hell of a lot more known than those two dicks in the mud,