Subject: Re: RS: Ben Horne
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Date: 1991-04-30, 06:25
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Demosthenes writes:
 waco@bellevue.hahahaha writes:
 
   Fraering writes: 
    This is in response tto Jeff Davis's post concerning why he thought TP
    was failing:
     
    So what it basically comes down to, is, Lynch doesn't subscribe
    to your view of 'political correctness?'
     
   If I see, hear, or even feel the vibrations in the ether of *any* derivative
   of the phrase politically correct *ONE* more time I am going to scream.
   
   If I see it put in quotation marks (single OR double) one more time, I'm
   going to go buy an Uzi and commit general mayhem on the populace.
 
 Hey, sorry to burst your bubble, but "politically correct" _IS_, no 
 question about it, a crock of shit. 
 (wrong newsgroup, but hey)

Pthweeet! Backfield in motion! 20 yard penalty. Loss of down.
My original post mentioned my own politics as obiter dicta. I attempted to 
present TPs view of the world from evidence internal to TP. I mentioned
Lynch's brand of conservative bohemianism simply to show that I was 'hep'
to things. Whatever Lynch's politics, it ain't the McLaughlin Report or 
something: his politics are tangential to the drama/melodrama. As a refresher,
my position was that since Ben Horne was in the process of making a 
moral choice and that the others were simply enjoyable cartoons, Horne
was the central -- if not only -- character, as "character" is understood
within the framework of drama. His regression to the Civil War, given
TPs obsession with the 50s, when the Civil War broke out again in this
country, I found significant. As regards to political correctness I am
(as is obvious, I hope) an old fashioned, ward politics, lets-hang-together
liberal. Let's get back to discussing vampire cows.
-- davis@keats.ca.uky.edu Is this a long trip or a short trip?