His analysis suffers from all
the intellectual flabbiness (for example, claiming that «the U.S. is fascist,» or that «the greed and avarice of the U.S. ruling class are seemingly unparalleled in history») and turgid prose (like his reference to the «Dickensianizing of postmodern megalopolises,» or his final chapter, entitled, «Unthinking Whiteness: Critical Citizenship in Gringolandia») that are commonly associated with the postmodern genre.
Holmer, obviously irritated by what he took to be a tone of
intellectual flabbiness, said, «You get the feeling we're all a lot of hothouse plants just crying for attention.