--- In [email protected], Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > Judy's tendency to obsess about people she > > loathes, to decide that they're "evil" and > > have nightmares about them, and to long for > > and be pleased over fantasies of their > > "public disgrace"...is all HEREDITARY. > > It runs in her family. > > Here we see Turq using the word "evil" as if he had > a definition for it.
To be fair to Barry, "evil" was the term I had used. I almost never use it in its archetypal sense; I'm not at all sure there *is* such a thing as evil in that sense. In the post about my mother, I was using it as a rather jocular synonym for "really awful"--reprehensible, harmful, pernicious. The really funny thing about Barry's comment is that he completely missed that I said my sister and I had *not* thought Cheney was particularly "evil." If we had, as Barry claims, inherited the tendency to see people as "evil," we wouldn't have been so startled at my mother's ferocious reaction to Cheney at that early stage of the game. As it turned out, of course, she was prescient: Cheney *was* a nightmare for this country, one of the worst in its history. But as for being publicly disgraced, I can't say I'm sorry to see Barry assuming the role of Cheney's defender for the sake of taking a cheap shot at me (not to mention at my dead mother). As Barry might say, it explains SO much.
