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Saturday 30 January 2010

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a mythological drama for the malcontented children of Modernity, a dramatic battle between the gods of our age: Eros, the creative Greek god of sexual love and beauty, and logos the neatly-ordered incarnation of Christendom’s version of Jesus. In this sense I don’t think the relevance of Kesey’s novel ended with the flower-children of the 60’s. Eros is still the god of loafers, poets, artists, and lovers and he still strives to liberate the repressed in a logos society dominated largely by cold calculation, dogmatic assertion, and quantifiable production. This struggle continues in various postmodern subcultures like Hip-Hop, Hackers, Freegans, Street Artists, Cybergoths, Polyamory, and hundreds of other North American neo-tribal groups who still can’t conceive of a brand of institutional authority rooted in anything but control, and toward whom the American church still largely projects the Jesus of logos. Pastoralia

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