The Last Avant-Garde?

We ran into Murray Jay Siskind at the supermarket. But his basket held generic food and drink, nonbrand items in plain white packages with simple labeling. There was a white can labeled CANNED PEACHES. There was a white package of bacon without a plastic window for viewing a representative slice. A jar of roasted nuts had a white wrapper bearing the words IRREGULAR PEANUTS... 

"This is the new austerity," he said. "Flavorless packaging. It appeals to me. I feel I'm not only saving money but contributing to some kind of spiritual concensus. It's like World War III. Everything is white. They'll take our bright colors away and use them in the war effort." (18)

- Don DeLillo White Noise

As of now, I...

1. Plan on being a shiny Soviet ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) for Halloween.  I'm going to need a silver onesie...
2. Am creeped out by, and jealous of, the little old white-haired couple I passed on my way home who were puttering along holding hands and wearing matching "his" and "hers" red ski jackets and khaki pants.
   
3. Feel the tingling of a new obsession with The Weathermen (A former radical American left group born out of Students for a Democratic Society at the 1969 SDS convention in Chicago... Declared war on the US government and was responsible for a series of bombings of federal buildings... You know, the group Bill Ayers was a part of?)  Its name came from the line in Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues "you don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows"  Check out the documentary The Weather Underground and riddle me this: Where's the revolution now?