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Review liberal*hearted, progressive-minded media. Focus on their political/philosophical/spiritual message. (*liberal adj. Favorable to progress or reform, maximum individual freedom, free from prejudice or bigotry, open-minded, tolerant, not bound by traditional ideas, values, etc.. Characterized by generosity and willingness to give. -- Webster's Dictionary)

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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https://newblueplanet.org/liberal-arts.html/book_records/the-electric-kool-aid-acid-test-r14/

By macphysto

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  • Artist: Tom Wolfe & Hunter S. Thompson
  • Release Year: 1968

As I have gotten older, my taste for fiction has considerably diminished. I am focusing more of my attention on nonfiction (biographies, memoirs, essays, journalistic reports, and humor) -- most recently, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe and Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson.

I had read Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers -- assigned reading while I was in college -- and was captivated by Wolfe's "New Journalism" style. The following passage particularly tickled my fancy and stimulated my synapses. Background: A college teacher reads aloud an excerpt of Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, then asks her students for their comments.

One of the ghetto brothers raises his hand, and she turns to him with the most radiant brotherly smile the human mind can imagine and says, "Yes?"

And this student, a funky character with electric hair, says: "You know what? Ghetto people would laugh if they heard what yo just read. That book wasn't written for the ghettos. It was written for the white middle class. They published it and they read it. What is this 'having previously dabbled in the themes and writings of Rousseau, Thomas Paine, and Voltaire' that he's laying down in there? You try coming down in the Fillmore doing some previously dabbling and talking about Albert Camus and James Baldwin. They'd laugh you off the block. That book was written to give a thrill to white women in Palo Alto and Marin County. That book is the best suburban jive I ever heard. I don't think he even wrote it. Eldridge Cleaver wouldn't write something like that. I think his wife wrote it . . . Pre-vi-ously dab-bled . . . I mean like don't dabble the people no previouslies and don't previous the people no dabblies and don't preevy-dabble the people with no split-level Palo Alto white bourgeouis housewife Buick Estate Wagon backseat rape fantasies . . . you know?

As for Thompson's profile, my interest in the subject matter was born more from my fondness for sixties biker flicks produced by American International Pictures than it was from an attraction to Hell's Angels . . . whom I consider scum.

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    Captain of USS Lucidity

    i like the quote.

    you mention several works. In the future, it would be better to submit one work at a time so others can add their own rating on the title. I edited the title to the first one.

    also, you should submit your RATING via another post. The software takes the work description in the first post and follow-up RATINGS/REVIEWS or COMMENTS on reviews is subsequent posts. This is just a comment. I have not read either book.

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    macphysto

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    13 hours ago, V.3 said:

    also, you should submit your RATING via another post . . .

    Pardon my obtuseness. Are you saying that I should rate (post a review of?) my liberal arts reviews? Aren't the Like, Negative, Confused, Haha, Award Worthy emojis used to rate a post?

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    V.3

    Captain of USS Lucidity

    i know it's confusing since there are many options here that are not on other social networks.

    the Likes, and other emojis are called "Reactions." They are available in discussion forum posts.

    the Liberal Arts posts are database entries created with fields of info that can be sorted and searched. They have an actual rating system built in, from 1 to 10 stars. So, yes, when you submit a Liberal Art book title you should post again to give it your 1 to 10 rating. (I guess the reason the rating is not available in the initial post is because some collection entries are submitted by the author themselves, who shouldn't rate their own work).

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    macphysto

    Newbl Citizen

    If I correctly understand your explanation, your October 12 review of your December 15, 2024 review of The Bible generated the five star rating below the review title, right?

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    V.3

    Captain of USS Lucidity

    yes, actually the AVERAGE score of all the ratings shows up in the first post. The initial post is the master record for that title.

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    V.3

    Captain of USS Lucidity

    while your wheels are spinning, Mac, any thoughts on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? All i remember is that i could identify with the feeling that it was satisfying that i could actually understand and fix the machine that i rode. I was more in control. It was smaller than a car and more connected to me.

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    macphysto

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    Cap'n, I've never read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance because the subject matter (which, according to my cursory World Wide Web investigations, is not about Zen and motorcycle maintenance) does not interest me. I'm not into philosophy.

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