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As a citizen, he is wild, defying not only those starched conventions that are there primarily to stick out your tongue at, but the other conventions, the real McCoys; those that are there to increase the small chance we have whether as children or' as adults, for a little domestic tranquility. | As a citizen, he is wild, defying not only those starched conventions that are there primarily to stick out your tongue at, but the other conventions, the real McCoys; those that are there to increase the small chance we have whether as children or' as adults, for a little domestic tranquility. | ||
== Sort of Conservative == | == Sort of Conservative == | ||
'''AS A PHILOSOPHER''', however, Mailer is dare I say it?__In his own fashion, a conservative. Wrestling in the 20th Century with the hegemonies of government and ideology, the conservative tends to side with the individualist. In his savage novels, Mailer's titanic struggles are sustained by the resources of his own spirit (plus booze). in his most recent novel, ''[[An American Dream]]'', a hero as screwy as Mailer lurches | '''AS A PHILOSOPHER''', however, Mailer is dare I say it?__In his own fashion, a conservative. Wrestling in the 20th Century with the hegemonies of government and ideology, the conservative tends to side with the individualist. In his savage novels, Mailer's titanic struggles are sustained by the resources of his own spirit (plus booze). in his most recent novel, ''[[An American Dream]]'', a hero as screwy as Mailer lurches from Gomorrah to hell and back, but always depends on himself to get out of the jam. | ||
Mailer is properly denounced by philosophical taxonomists as a soilpsist__a man for whom reality is confined to himself and his own experience. Still it is a relief__sort of a half way house to the proper blend of the individual and tradition __ to read a novel in which the protagonist doesn't depend for his salvation on life rafts coast out into the sea of Hope by Marx. Freud, or U Thant. | Mailer is properly denounced by philosophical taxonomists as a soilpsist__a man for whom reality is confined to himself and his own experience. Still it is a relief__sort of a half way house to the proper blend of the individual and tradition __ to read a novel in which the protagonist doesn't depend for his salvation on life rafts coast out into the sea of Hope by Marx. Freud, or U Thant. | ||