I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams by Mark Dery
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Overview: A head-spinning thrill ride through contemporary American culture.
Thinking Bad Thoughts is above all else a refusal to recognize intellectual no-fly zones. In America, that translates as the rejection of bred-in-the-bone Puritanism; bourgeois anxieties about taste; the self-censorship routinely practiced by academics, fearful of offending tenure committees and blinkered by elite assumptions about what constitutes “serious” subject matter and “scholarly” style; the craven capitulation of Hollywood and the news media, phobic of truly controversial content that might scare off advertisers or upset Middle America’s mental digestion. (By “truly controversial content,” I mean incendiary ideas that challenge the founding assumptions of official fictions or popular pieties. Take your pick, for example, of Noam Chomsky’s Top is List of Things You Can’t Say on Nightline: “The biggest international terror operations that are known are the ones that are run out of Washington; if the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every postwar American president would have been hanged; the Bible is one of the most genocidal books in the total canon; education is a system of imposed The politics of Thinking Bad Thoughts stands foursquare against the faux-populist demagogues, brownshirt pundits, evangelical no-nothings, and Tea Party lumpen of the anti-intellectual right and against the Stalinist thought police of the left at its most inquisitional, scouring every soul for counterrevolutionary.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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