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I'm way past the idea of using ideology or political view as a gauge of human character. i simply don't believe it. and many people, i tend to think most people, feel that way. since i don't have to worry about it, i'm happy.

-James Ellroy

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James Ellroy

I'm way past the idea of using ideology or political view as a gauge of human character. i simply don't believe it. and many people, i tend to think most people, feel that way. since i don't have to worry about it, i'm happy.

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Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with brecht) is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. the absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.

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So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. i'm not happy. i don't know what's wrong. if i just had another job, i could be happy. if i just get married, i would be happy. well if i just wasn't married, i would be happy. well, if i just had some kids, i'll be happy. i'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. if i had a bigger house, i would be happy. well, i got a big house. now if i just had a maid to clean, i'd be happy. well, now if i just had a maid i could get along with better, i'd be happy.

Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. this ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is "america." this concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically america encourages a politics of contestation.

Oh god, are there so many of them in our land! students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.

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