tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post2163960643608777283..comments2023-10-24T11:03:41.388-05:00Comments on ladypoverty: The downloads of Dorian GrayJ.R. Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076895859826581960noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-21279058445109664892010-07-29T16:25:33.038-05:002010-07-29T16:25:33.038-05:00As is often the case, your comments have informed ...As is often the case, your comments have informed my thoughts on many of these issues; but because of limitations on my time, I hope you'll accept my regular postings in response!JRBhttp://ladypoverty.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-37648179002684003682010-07-28T23:53:15.061-05:002010-07-28T23:53:15.061-05:00Hattie,
Lasch was "conservative" only i...Hattie,<br /><br />Lasch was "conservative" only in the sense that he didn't kowtow to 20th/21st century "progressive" political correctness.<br /><br />So if that stuff is important to you -- political correctness -- maybe you should avoid him.<br /><br />Whether your friend fucked him, that's of no moment to the validity of his publicly offered thoughts.<br /><br />My guess is you'll hate/despise/be disgusted by his thoughts on abortion. So I'd be prepared to hear your harangues on that subject, excoriating him endlessly, with "keep your laws off my body" rhetoric.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-49273016477408150542010-07-28T20:33:38.583-05:002010-07-28T20:33:38.583-05:00Very thoughtful. I see these things all around me....Very thoughtful. I see these things all around me. A whole propaganda industry masks from workers and consumers their complete unimportance to our rulers except as means to the ends of making the rich richer. <br />I might read Lasch. One of my friends was his lover a long time ago. She is dubious now about some of his premises, so I want to find out about that. He was rather conservative about the role of women, I believe. But I need to check it out.Hattiehttp://hattie.typepad.com/hatties_web/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-54903181318548542612010-07-28T10:42:47.750-05:002010-07-28T10:42:47.750-05:00Another excellent post.
Here's a quote from E...Another excellent post.<br /><br />Here's a quote from Emerson that I think is apropos:<br /><br />“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members….The virtue most [requested] is conformity….Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”<br /><br />Here's another:<br /><br />“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-91631780974239600142010-07-28T08:42:37.427-05:002010-07-28T08:42:37.427-05:00CFO__ The Lasch is excellent.
JRB -- I don't ...CFO__ The Lasch is excellent.<br /><br />JRB -- I don't know how smart GWB is, but he got every fucking thing he ever asked for, except maybe the privatization of social security and he didn't try all that hard on that one. That is one smart motherfucker if you ask me and few I say that to agree.<br /><br />I just got back from a visit with my mid-80's parents and they could not (or at least would not) describe themselves as "confused at where their life has gone and why everyone has abandoned them," and yet it is true. After the visit my mother wrote and said that they were going to drastically reduce the price of their house, their only real asset, and move to an apartment. They worked and raised a family, my father fought in Korea and lived to do as his society wished him to, despite misgivings. He expected his personal development to come through his service to god and country, which is a pretty important tenet of fascism and the path you urge us to avoid.<br /><br />Thanks for this post and again, for this blog.driphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182879631506288757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-61988523600902828112010-07-27T22:40:12.835-05:002010-07-27T22:40:12.835-05:00Growth and development, not to mention democracy i...<i>Growth and development, not to mention democracy itself, meant different things to George W. Bush than they did to most of the world's peoples who experienced his interpretation first hand.</i><br /><br />Good point. It's a different way of saying something I'm wont to use as a scolding remark toward those who called Dubya Bush "stupid" and "incompetent." He's neither; he just has different ideas on what is the smart thing to do and what is the best way to do those smart things.<br /><br />I'd say Dubya Bush and Barack Obama are much closer aligned on what is "growth," what is "development," what is "democracy" than either of those two cats is aligned with most of the rest of humanity. Their rhetorical approaches may differ, but if we look at their acts, they look like twins on the agenda front.<br /><br />It's important for Americans to recognize that what works best for the corporate-crony-capitalist gang is almost always something that is destructive, socio-economically speaking, for the rest of us among the American populace. I think the naivete harbored by many Americans is beginning to corrode, thanks to the programmatic identity between the Bush-Cheney Admin and its followers in the Obama-Biden Admin, since both gangs have chosen to reward the thieving profiteers on the public dime.<br /><br />If more of us Americans believe ourselves qualified to pass judgment on the so-called "leaders" of our government, we can take the next step: ejecting them, and replacing our system with one that is more humane.<br /><br />+++++++++++++<br /><br />Another thought, related to the ideas of growth and development: those ideas are basically the cornerstones of "progress," and Christopher Lasch wrote an excellent analysis of the American obsession with progress and its socio-economically destructive products. If you've never read it, I suggest it... "The True and Only Heaven: Progress and its Critics."<br /><br />If you'd like to read it, JRB, and can't find a copy, I'd happily loan mine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-56422886903520669062010-07-27T21:10:46.717-05:002010-07-27T21:10:46.717-05:00This is some of your best stuff.This is some of your best stuff.mpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-81678476458732684202010-07-27T18:09:31.342-05:002010-07-27T18:09:31.342-05:00This was an unpleasant essay because it is so true...This was an unpleasant essay because it is so true. I've basically ruined myself financially following this pattern of thought and behavior.<br /><br />Kudos for another perceptive essay!BRian Mnoreply@blogger.com