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For the first time in 19 years I have today felt a rising sense of possibility as my kids go forward into the new century. They will for a decade yet still need to traverse the inherent nihilism of the ubiquitous driving music of the insidious and subliminal pop culture, like that which they forced on the enemy in Grenada but now play regularly in grocery stores, and for those with still in college the English and Politics department where nihilist ideology and the historic legacy of Marxism fill the teachers’ lounge 88 to 3 (National Association of Scholars report, “A Crisis of Competence”), trailing since I was in school when you could not take a math course without reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X or a French lit course without reading The Thief’s Journal or Saint Genet.

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