I’ve always enjoy Mark Dery’s caustic cultural criticism. His pen’s reservoir is filled with aqua regia and the nib is made from barb wire. Now he has a blog, called Shovelware. His latest entry, about the “Not One More Damn Dime” (NOMDD) boycott, is excellent. He let me know about it in an email message, in which he asked rhetorically, “Why, as a fellow traveler who heartily agrees that our ill-conceived adventure in nation-building has become a slaughterbench for army reservists and a recruitment tool for jihadis, do I find myself so wildly irritated by today’s Not One More Damn Dime boycott?”
[T]he whole business reeks of bobo sanctimony and cultural elitism. Any member of the Adbusters-reading, Supersize Me-watching leisure class who honestly believes she can Stick It to the Man by keeping her dimes firmly in her hand-knitted Guatemalan rucksack, right beside her manically underlined copy of Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, is unlikely to be seen rolling a 55-gallon drum of Miracle Whip out of Wal-Mart or rejoicing in fried offal at the local McDonald’s.
As one commentor posted on Dery’s site: “NOMDD is a lefty’s equivalent to the magnetic Support Our Troops ribbon.”
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