Richard Oxman conducted a long interview with Joe Bageant that appeared on several websites. Here is Part One.
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Eugene Ionesco and the Empire
By Joe Bageant
Thanks to an online friend, I recently rediscovered Eugene Ionesco’s
play Rhinoceros -- the one about being fully human in a totalitarian
state. Berenger, the play's protagonist, is a humanist stranded in a
society slowly becoming monsters. Rhinoceroses to be exact, a symbol
for a herding mindless ugliness in an unthinking stampede. Ultimately
Berenger is the last pink flesh and blood man left in a stampeding
rhinoceros herd, and comes to grasp that the stampede itself is what it
is all about. It is the stampede, the mindless charging off together
that causes the metamorphosis of people into rhinos.
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