Candyman

I'm a fan of Terry Southern's work and thus I was surprised and delighted to read this appreciation in the online mag Dissident Voice: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/strange-loves-magic-christians-and-so-much-more-an-appreciation-of-terry-southern/

Here's my favorite excerpt:

While some may think the U.S. has become a more open, more culturally sophisticated society since Terry Southern’s time, I have my doubts. Rather we often seem to me like weird masochists choosing to keep ourselves in cultural lockdown, breathlessly mouthing the words “individual freedom” and “creative potential” and “no limits” and what-not, while our corporatist system, looking metaphorically like the gruesome self-caricature of the late-period Mae West dressed in red-white-and-blue burlesque house lamé, gleefully and unstintingly whacks us with its Naugahyde cat-o-nine tails. Oh, Freedom™.

I couldn't agree more.

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