Greetings Economists,
On May 4, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
Actually, when I first started seeing my shrink I had a diagnosis of
DSM 300.4, Dysthymic disorder.
Doyle;
More or less the same thing as me. I think Jim says something
pertinent here though:
JD writes;
Return to the key question: am I mentally disabled? damned straight I
am! Isn't everyone?
Doyle;
The smiley face comment also points to a specific to me, I don't see
this openness as a bad thing. It's in some ways what sets us apart
from 1917 and opens the door to think about the left as something not
militarized into combat for power. I've seen Ravi advocate for
techniques of collaboration which at first I thought were really
exciting but we keep running into a wall of slow progress.
Functionally being open about some of this takes the devil out of the
terms and allows us to question not so much from technology but why
Ravi and other smart people aim at social software concepts and why
they build so slowly. The debate ends up for me roughly like the
first debate I had on LBO when I thought the bad economy would produce
a recession in 1998. Wiser heads like Max Sawicky showed me my
understanding failed. Yet I gained in the last ten years a sense that
being just me is good enough. And my hunger to see success for people
like Ravi to create the optimal community tools to rebuild the left
fitted to our times sometimes pushes me to see success like a mirage
of a lake of water just receding toward the horizon. And now like
Doug's comment above a sense of commonality that emerges when conflict
is taken as a positive we can grow from.
While I don't think Michael gets it when he tells me we don't ask
personal questions, I was too harsh. He has made a space for me here
to talk and that is a big step in relation to the rest of the world.
So Jim you are right here. Thanks for bringing that up.
Doyle
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