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From the Magazine Rack-
On Not Voting
"Nor do I expect to vote for any of the Candidates 1960. My chief objection to them is, I'm afraid, personal. Each of them seems to me to have allowed his handlers to 'build him up' into a candidate by rubbing off all the rough edges that make a Somebody out of Anybody. As E. E. Cummings writes: 'a politician is an arse upon / which everyone has sat except a man.' It might be called building up by tearing down. The trouble is they've all been built up (or torn down) to the same level, so that there's not enough to choose between them, to justify standing in line and making the muscular effort to pull down this or that lever. And what's it to me, really?
"If I were threatened with a gun (or a fine of, say, over $100). I should probably vote again for Stevenson, who still remains, after eight years, not only the most distinguished, honest, and intelligent candidate on either side but also the 'only' distinguishable, etc.
"What are the issues this time? The only important domestic one is racial equality, that is, it is the only issue on which there is any serious disagreement as to the need for a change in the status quo. We are not threatened with the loss of our traditional freedoms; McCarthyism is quiescent and no major candidate is on record against civil liberties. Quite the contrary—civil liberties are definitely 'chic.' Nor are there any important economic issues, as there were in 1932 and 1936. Since 1940, the country is rich beyond the dreams of Midas (or Karl Marx); the rich are richer, as is their disgusting habit, but the poor are doing far better than they ever have before. It is true there still are disgracefully many millions of them. It is also true that the classic proletariat of Marx—the miners, the steel and auto workers, the truck drivers, etc. — have made disproportionate gains while the white-collar workers, the clerks and librarians and teachers, are being paid much less than the social value of their work. But the proletarians are organized into powerful unions — the farmers aren't doing badly either — and I see no candidate or party that is dedicated to redressing this balance...
"I see national politics as mere busy-work to divert the civic-minded from the real political questions, which are local, practical matters that (a) make a real difference in the lives of the voters, and (b) can be decided one way or the other.
"Granted that in certain historical turning points it does make a difference — Roosevelt's victory over Hoover in 1932 is an example, also Churchill's replacing Chamberlain in 1940 — my opinion is that Armageddon happens rarely and that most times, this year for instance, the effect of one as against another built-up-torn-down candidate is in the realm of metaphysics and so of little interest to sensible people . . . serious political point; I agree with the young Marx when he insisted, against Hegel, that the State is made for Man and not the other way round. The State, our euphemism for free democratic elections, has become a fetish with our educated classes, especially in contrast to the horrors, and they are horrors, of Soviet totalitarianism. Certainly it is good for citizens, all other things being equal, to have a chance to vote freely on Candidates 1960. But this is a minor good compared to the real political issues, which, except in some local elections, are not touched at all: I mean issues like sitting down at lunch counters or, in New York, the successful efforts of that great planner and public servant, Robert Moses, to destroy such slight remnants of community life as remain in this anonymous urban wasteland. The trouble is also that all other things are not usually equal in historical crises, where it counts. The majority may be swayed, against their own interests, by some demagogue like Louis Napoleon, or they may be euchred, in a semi-legal way, as they were by the Bolsheviks in 1917 and by Hitler in 1933. Do you still talk of The People? Let us rather talk about ourselves."
(Excerpted from "The Candidates and I" by Dwight Macdonald, April, 1960, Commentary.)
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Greetings Gate, Let's Integrate
"A couple of Warner's future colleagues brushed past him on his way out. One was a cute little brunette, just barely on the plump side. Her friend was an ash blonde, thinner but also plainer. They looked back at him speculatively.
"How's every little thing?' Warner said agreeably.
"They giggled and ran on down the hall. Now you see, he reproached himself, you goofed. You should have gotten with it, dad. You should have said, Wasn't that test The Most, didn't you just about Wig Out? I thought I'd Flip, the brunette could have replied then, pantomiming strangulation. The Living End, her quieter friend would have agreed. From this rapport, he could have invited them to the cafeteria for ice-cream cones: Let's shoot some frozen moo at the calorie counter. Crazy, the brunette would say. Too Much, from the blonde. Then they would take a table near the juke box, and hear the latest excursion into atonality. Really comes on, don't it? Warner could shout above the screaming brass. Right In There, the brunette would yell. Like Jack the Bear, her friend would echo (or was that when it was Nowhere?)
"Finally he'd be left alone with the brunette, and he could get down to serious conversation: What's your lucky number? That was always a good opening gambit. But suppose he ended up with the plain girl? She might want to read the beat poets with him. Anoud."
(From a short story, "The Idiot Factory," by Willard Marsh in the Winter Issue of Modern Age.)
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