to rea­lize how fun­ny it was you first have to remem­ber that        ronald rea­gan was gover­nor of cali­for­nia        nixon was in the white        house and h.r. hal­de­man nixons chief of staff was on the board of        trus­tees that the dis­neys had set up for cal arts        while mar­cuse was        the dar­ling of the new left or of its youth move­ment        in spite of the        fact that he was real­ly an elder­ly ger­man intel­lec­tual whose radi­cal­ly        revi­sio­nist mar­xian ideas of the libe­ra­tio­nal pos­si­bi­li­ties of the sexual        revo­lu­tion were inva­ria­bly expres­sed in the pedan­tic prose of the        hege­lian dia­lec­tic        so he must have loo­ked to the sou­thern cali­for­nia        right wing like a com­bi­na­tion of baku­nin and have­lock ellis        besides        which he had an abso­lu­te­ly nega­tive rela­tion to just about all        contem­po­ra­ry art