2. He likes LA because he thinks it’s like the maya, an ever-shifting veil of illusion. Isherwood exemplifies the “California Zen” we’re all familiar with. He talks about his esteem for the Vedas.
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3. He also talks about attitudes to homosexuality, which were already clearly liberal in 1969. One of my bugbears is that we have a sort of pseudo-reactionary popular history where everything until the last decade was Oscar Wilde-style imprisonment and rampant KKK.
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4. The past is way more liberal, in the broadest sense, than people think. And the ideology of “California Zen” is much deeper.
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