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Saturday, August 09, 2003 Ah, CaliforniaThis column on that idiotically-named new Fox melodrama about Orange County has an interesting quote from one of the producers:"That's why you have a band like Rage Against the Machine from Irvine," McG added. "It's one of the most politically significant bands in contemporary culture and they're a bunch of guys who grew up in middle-income communities right in the heart of Orange County." [Kids in Southern California] "become infatuated with the hip-hop cultures of New York and London and places that have a little more history than where the oldest building in town is done by a developer looking to make the most money possible on a minimall." "Politically significant"? Rage Against the Machine is shallow, posturing bullshit -- rather like The O.C. itself. Too Much of Nothing tries to make this point as powerfully as possible. The culture of Southern California is so strange that what passes for rebellion there is no less shallow than what passes for respectability. The same goes for state politics: West-coast Republicanism tends to be so blinkered that its self-conscious opposite, the San Francisco left, is bound to seem rather insane. Which accounts for the current carnival. First link via Matt Welch. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 2:42 AM | |
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