The Boom Bust

When I was studying Spanish literature in high school I had not heard the term "Latin boom." Perhaps the term had not yet been coined at that time or else I was just not very aware. More recently in glancing through Kent Stone's unbelievably boring book we learn that "Latin boom" refers to the generation of Latin American writers who lived and wrote in the 1960s and 1970s and whose writings are infused with Marxist ideology which means, of course, class warfare. Ha ha ha! They were not referring, of course, to sports day at our school, I am pretty sure. Most likely this was some type of oblique reference to the existence of liberation theology which is a form of theological thinking that tries to make the gibberish of Karl Marx seem like a good and noble thing by virtue of favoring the poor above the rich, a sort of Robin Hood ethic. The Latin poor will supposedly rise up and liberate themselves by casting off the yoke of the wealthy Anglo oppressor. Of course this does not really happen in class warfare. What really happens is that the rich will get even richer and the middle class will just get poorer and disappear into the rising tide of poverty, which makes middle class people leery of this "liberation" theology. Marxist liberation theology operates on various presuppositions that are not necessarily shared by the rest of us people which makes it shocking to learn that even our own church denomination is overrun with these Communist praxist whackos, in particular that blooming idiot Doug Peterson who boasts of Oxford credentials so what would we know about that? What would Oxford know about liberation theology in America? Back in the old days I personally was not aware that the Costa Rica missionaries were such pinko Marxist Communists but in glancing through Doug Peterson's voluminous and boring Ph.D. thesis on the library shelves there at Vanguard we see that his entire thesis centers on the concept of "praxis." Huh? Well, a lot of missionaries always thought that Doug Peterson was a blooming idiot anyway so now we know it was true. In a nutshell that is my opinion of liberation theology.