You've mentioned Gatto often. I've not read the book but have read a synopsis or two and feel as though I'm familiar with his thesis if not all of the specifics and, yes, much of it the same in principle as Hedges. It's a damned mess, with extreme, but even more so extremely rigid conflicting views tugging at it constantly and too many of our young people get tangled up in and often even strangled by the rope. Maybe one more of those matters or topics where genuinely conservative libertarians and actual pre-1990s sourced (small p) progressives are closer on an issue than the conventional wisdom would expect.
I'm quite certain that I responded to one of your earlier references to Gatto and his work and we discussed it at some time in the past.
