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Something a bit different here -- a fascinating piece of writing on post-communist culture in Hungary.

I particularly liked Milun's concept of "surplus consciousness," which I would explain as that "part" of the personal, individual sphere of conscience and consciousness that the totalizing state has failed to "territorialize" or socialize, and not for lack of trying. It is that which survives such attempts, because it retains a social or cultural memory of its national past, its traditions, its heritage.

Anyhoot, it seem to be the sort of thing that no state can simply eradicate, no matter how hard it tries -- short of making full frontal lobotomy mandatory for every subject of the state.... [HRC, please call your office....]

Anyhoot, this may not be everybody's cup of tea.... If so, please pass it by.

Yet, personally, I found even the footnotes fascinating!

[betty boop]

A little light summer fare.... If you have the time and interest! (Might be controversial....)

[NewRomeTacitus]

Though that reeked of new age BS it was a good look at a sociological mixing of an old culture with a new genre.
Did you know that Frank Zappa made frequent visits to Yugoslavia to promote capitalist self-help projects before he became terminally ill? You won't hear about it because the media elite declared him persona non grata after his "Jewish Princess" song.