On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 2:04 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just to be clear I never once suggested that sustainability and consumption > reduction while keeping everything else the same is feasible or desirable. > But it seems to me that no one on the left wants to talk about these 800 > pound gorillas at all.
Those of us who insist on talking about the 800 pound gorilla are scolded for being "one-issue fanatics". > I strongly believe that sustainability should be an important part of the > discourse on the left. I also believe that there is a faction on the left > that is strongly opposed to including these subjects and treats them like > taboo. Why else would a Sarah van Gelder be compared to a rapacious predator > like Andrew Mellon? I don't think the faction in question is "strongly opposed" to talking about these things. I think they are just more interested in scoring cheap rhetorical points than in engaging in dialog. Their grad school training prepared them for delivering smart-ass zingers, not for listening attentively. At a moment when the entire spectrum of bourgeois stupidity and cowardice is breathlessly embracing the magical "stimulus package" nostrum, one might imagine that a "left" would be eager to develop a critique of the prevailing idiocy. Instead, many of those who style themselves "on the left" reveal their thinking to be simply the left flank of bourgeois stupidity. -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
