Masstige

This is a new term by our friends over on Madison Ave. to market prestige for the masses. Hard for a fishing guide to wrap his mind around perhaps, but this campaign manifests itself as a program for renting designer handbags by the month. As the young ,female, status -conscious project manager described it on the radio, rather than spending the two hundred dollars a month she normally does for these handbags, she could just rent one for a fraction of the cost and still remain fashionable. Is this a great country or what?

Boz Scaggs sings: So much desire in the world today, so much of everything you can't give it all away. You could be happy but your feeling so bad about what you never had. You ca't look at nothin without wantin it. who was it told you, you had to have everything you see?


Far from being the prescriptive, rigid, dogmatic thought system characterized and sucessfully demonized by its opponents, I believe as Garaudy does that "Marxism contains within itself, in its very principle, infinate possibilities of development and renewel."