Catch 22 1/2

I loved the leap of ambition you took with this one. I am not exactly conversant with popular culture. But have attempted to check in. I remember a good book, called A generation in Motion by David Pichaske, about pop music and its connection with the flower children.

The brush with beat literature clarified the instinct that propelled ``a generation destroyed by madness.``

And then, existentialism, born after WW I in France, unlike what you say here, and how that was pitchforked into the detente of the post-seventies...in our neck of the woods, and generally late sixties for the white world. That profound Nietzchian negativism...distilled through Sartre and Camus exchange philosophical exchanges on suicide. Myth of Sisiphus is still required reading, methinks, to every MBA classroom worth its name. Short. Profound. And to the point, as they prefer.

It might also make some in each class connect to that Dadaist call by Tzara...art against art. concept after Art for art`s sake...

I agree with you that there are very few movements now. Purity in instinct too is at premium. But, every new pure kid on the block has his/her history only to her last caretaker.

All in all, this was a seriously qualitative telescoping. More, from wherever it came.

Just to actually be relevant....that thing about Amitabh Bacchan. He was created by Salim-Javed, filmed by Prakash mehra....but Manmohan Desai made the maximum money out of that finished good called the angry young man. And, MD was what shall we call...a caricaturist who syndicated the AYM cartoon, and made it a national folk story.

At one stroke...

HN

Brilliant! I agree. The so-called 70s left in India and Pak have equal blame to share to use religion to remain in power and ironically unleashing fundo forces.