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#124 - FahrenHitch 9/11 (Patreon)

Published:
2019-10-18 00:07:45
Edited:
2020-12-01 15:49:44
Imported:
2024-06

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Left-wing voices in the mainstream media were hard to come by in the mid-2000s, which may be why so many of us settled for leftist-turned-Iraq-War-defender Christopher Hitchens. TEXAS: AMERICA SUPERSIZED (2004) sees "Hitch" doing his best Louis Theroux impersonation as he wanders through Texas -- a state he admiringly views as a synecdoche for America. We discuss Hitchens' path from obscure columnist to famous warmonger; why he appealed to precocious teen boys; and how he laid the groundwork for the Intellectual Dark Web™.

"Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens" by Richard Seymour - https://www.versobooks.com/books/1159-unhitched

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Jacob Peterson

You guys have put forward a number of great book recommendations on this and past episodes. I would love to hear more in the future.

Gareth Hedges

RAY DAVIES' POLITICS One point about the new ep about the UK... Ray Davies' politics are much stranger than comes across. He seems to enjoy being hard to pin down and provocative. He's also apparently bi-polar (his suicide attempt closes his strange memoir). His brother Dave heard voices for a long time leading up to his 2004 stroke, during which time he also had two wives in America and the UK (his memoir KINK is well-worth reading). With Ray, everything from Village Green Preservation Society on is written at a remove, in character. Much like the work of Randy Newman, these are characters speaking from a point of view that is not necessarily Davies'. Arthur was to have been a teleplay based the life of their brother-in-law, a carpet layer. Ray and Dave Davies grew up in a multi-generational working class household in Muswell Hill (Dave might be Ray's half-brother). The Arthur and Muswell Hillbillies albums were based on the experiences of their relatives and growing up in a post-war working class slum. Indeed, one Davies sister moved to Toronto and another, who Ray called Mum until he was 5, moved to Australia, (yet another sister died dancing after giving Ray his first guitar). Ray describes their father's politics as working class socialist. Ray himself appears to be a socialist, but says he's never voted. He adores the films fo Powell & Pressburger, and it is this invented sense of Britishness that Davies seems to celebrate, while still championing outsiders and underdogs and being LGTBQ friendly. He insists (not unlike Jane Jacobs) on the model of village, small shops, and the highstreet. He's somewhat naively wary of anything larger. He's drawn to the wartime spirit of empire, but hates corporations, developers, technology, Tony Blair, the war on terror (which he believes is precursor to social control), etc. Ray did make two films, and a few lesser television. Return to Waterloo, about a maybe-rapist in transit, is quite good. One final point about Dave, apparently, right wing talk radio personality (and onetime Ginsburg lover) Michael Savage once devoted an entire episode to Dave's song Living on a Thin Line, believing it contained the answers to everything that was happening in the early 2000s (I was on a kinks message board from 1994-on, fans used to share whenever they heard anything anywhere).