> how you can fight capitalism in theory
> wearing one of his prominent symbols (blujeans) of freedom
> at the same time?
>
> ...pez
I love your insight that one wears not what one is but what one wants to be . . .
excellent thought to remember.
I think maybe one of the problems of the trad. left is it did tend to assume that
people were rational actors, and wanted quantifiable things--more money, less
working hours, control over work, etc--when actually I thing the human creature
wants some rather insane and excessive things--the love of multitudes, lots of
gratuitous admiration, sex, and food; the right to nap whenever you feel like it;
a large wardrobe of sexy jeans; the ability to remember punch lines and thus make
people laugh; the ability to give gifts to loved people, and especially to
enemies; glory, amusement, excitement. This doesn't exactly translate to rational
public policy but it does translate to Charles Bronson as a revolutionary hero, I
guess.
>From the Land Where Machine Guns Are Legal,
AK
