It's also significant because it typifies the elitism that powers his book. At one level Miller is another tragic victim of Sixties Syndrome. Beneath the surface of his books he's tortured by it. But Foucault was both well-educated and a genius. SDS adventurist Jeff Shero, the b te noire of Democracy Is in the Streets, was merely clever, and so exemplifies how Tom Hayden's fellowship of humane intellectual seekers was wrecked not just by the intractability of the capitalist order but by the self-indulgent incomprehension of their recruits.
Somebody help, please.
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