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Jul 19 13 2:25 PM
MJ Simpson wrote:It took me about five minutes to find that this: "The obvious monstrousness of the war undermined the credibility of the system and this questioning of authority spread logically to a questioning of the structure that validated it and ultimately to patriarchy itself." in Spiderbaby's article matches this: "The obvious monstrousness of the war definitively undermined the credibility of "the system" - the system that had hitherto retained sufficient daunting authority and impressiveness to withstand the theoretical onslaughts of Marx and Freud, the province only of dubious intellectuals. Protest became popular, the essential precondition to valid revolution. Psychically, the consequences of this reached out far beyond outrage at an unjust war. The questioning of authority spread logically to a questioning of the structure that validated it, and ultimately to patriarchy itself." in Robin Wood's book Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan - and Beyond.
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