Revolution No. 9

No.9?
No. 9?
No. 9?
No. 9?

This may seem superfluous, indeed it has no relation to the general themes of the book. But my favorite quote in the "Satanic Verses" as to yet is:

"The kids in the Street [sic] started wearing rubber devil-horns on their heads, the way they used to wear pink-and-green balls jiggling on the ends of stiff wires a few years previously, when they preferred to intimate spacemen. The symbol of the Goatman, his fist raised in might, began to crop up on banner sat political demonstrations, Save the Six, Free the Four, Eat the Heinz Fifty-Seven."

Awesome indictment of "revolution." Far too often, the most extreme portions of "revolution" are marginalized, and the acceptable parts get rolled into pop culture (here, heinz 57). A strange dichotomy for revolution indeed.

A couple examples: Good music at the turn of the '90s. Nirvana gets rolled into pop; The Cure and Elliot Smith are pushed to the edges...Modern example: Red Hot Chili Peppers become mainstream and Radiohead is marginalized to "weird european stuff."

I guess that's a tangential argument. The point I'm driving at is that every "revolution" -- in our society at least -- has something that is anti-revolutionary. T-shirts and bumper stickers and such. It's a strange phenomenon that I can only hope is isolated here.

Sorry I missed tonight's cooking session but Tech v. Tech was calling.