Come on, let's cool it with the personalities.
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:37:06AM +0100, Mark Jones wrote: > ravi wrote: > > > > i hope doug does not find me in the list of those he finds unreasonable. > > whether it be my general responses to his posts, or to the particular > > issue of marc cooper (and i agree that we should avoid discussing > > personalities), i have tried to be honest and friendly. if that > > impression is untrue, i apologize. > > > > Doug Henwood's emails are full of words about his extreme annoyance, anger, > frustration, irritation etc; all of that is humiliating and insulting to > his possible interlocutors. It also looks like a cry for help, it's not even > repressed rage any more, but open and in-your-face anger and capriciousness. > There is no need to apologise. Doug is or was a psychoanalyst, wasn't he? He > ought to recognise some warning signs. Probably his Oedipal struggle with > the patriarchal Gods of socialism will soon be over, he will slough off that > skin and re-emerge as the rock-ribbed repug he really is. Will they still > have him though? That's the problem. After all, he already was a repug, long > ago before imagining that he was of the left after all. Maybe he upset a few > people during his commute up and down the Damascus road and now they don't > want him either. > > Mark > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
