The Social Theory Of Hockey Moms

As Pinocchio Theory succintly points out: http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=669 An Issue That Won’t Go Away ...analyses...blithely ignore the ways that Palin’s media persona (the “hockey mom” entirely dedicated to Family who is also the ferocious “pitbull” or “barracuda”) could never have been imagined in another time and place, because it is so closely tied to the economic situation of American middle-class families today (in which the necessity for both parents to work subsists uneasily alongside the still unequal distribution of household and child-raising chores)... Or, in the words of my limited capacity, she is the true incarnation of the Death of A Middle Class. Willy Loman accepted his death by marginalization with a depressed alcoholism. Now there will be a fight against the machine... ...however, what the machine is will not be defined until some future date when the fighting is already joined and barricades are in the streets. This is rather similar to how the campaign has no well defined issues...as yet, even though the carapace of our country falls about our ears. (note: my spin will not meet Spinocchio's...er, Pinocchio's approval, so do not expect such concordance.)