>I regret that Mark has piggy-backed blue-baiting of on top of my
>chiding. I share a number of Doug's cultural criticisms of "the
>left". I don't think that makes me a Republican. My issue with Doug
>is that he makes his dour observations and then "leaves it at that."
>The implication of the resulting void *could be* reactionary, but
>doesn't have to be so. Assuming that it *is* reactionary rather than
>merely incomplete is another way to limit the possibilities.
>
>What strikes me is that Doug, Michael, Yoshie and Mark offered no
>response to my _programmatic_ reply to Doug. I could be utterly
>wrong, in which case I would welcome the criticism. But I don't
>think I'm vague or obtuse. Doug wrote (in a subsequent message) that
>the left "has no analytical vocabulary for talking about 'good'
>times." My position is that the left "has" the vocabulary but
>doesn't use it -- stubbornly refuses to use it, refuses to even see
>that it is refusing to use it. I talked about how one might talk
>about good times and Doug, Michael, Yoshie and Mark didn't respond.
>I talked about the capitalism fun stuff -- leftism hair shirt
>dialectic and why that is so. No reply. I hinted that maybe secretly
>leftists prefer the drama of struggling against insurmountable odds,
>which basically is where I share Doug's view. No answer.
>
>Mark Jones wrote,
>
>>Good stuff, however I fear a return right back to the womb may
>>be >necessary in the case of some lapsed and possibly born-again
>>Republicans.
>
>Tom Walker
>Bowen Island, BC
>604 947 2213
For what it's worth, Tom, you & your program have my wholehearted
support. I thought that it would go without saying!
Yoshie
