2007-07-02 Dionysian revelry annoys the new puritans

I read the other reviews and sighed a long drawn out groan. How can they massacre this masterpiece???

Is the world going to be grassed over by clipped lawns, watering cans and the power of prayer. This book is about sex- masculine sex -and as such it oozes Buwkowsian testosterone- yes sure it is mysoginist, misanthropic, racist and stares into the gutter- so what and get real? Look at the stats new puritans- that's where most of the world lives.

What this book shows is the Dionysian frenzy of the poor, the panting gasps for breath, the alcoholism, the reek of poverty, the ache in the stomach but most of all the LUST for life. It is anti-political illuminating a revolution in disarray-there is no glorious socialism- just the stutifying impact of the American embargo ebbing away at peoples lives as they barter goods and their bodies.

The chattering classes like to distance themselves from the poor by rigorously divorcing themselves from the sexual act- "It's what makes us cultured"-that's why the poor invented rock and roll (gettit) and the puritans are left chanting hymns- but then you have to ask- who has the money to pay for the sex with the poor?