There was a debate in the letters of the Wall Street JOURNAL many years ago (back when the USSR was still around) about golf. One letter said that it was a totally bourgeois pastime and took up too much urban real-estate without being parks open to the public and said that there were no golf courses in the East Bloc. Another pointed out that there _was_ a golf course near the Crimean Sea, to train diplomats to help deal with the capitalist diplomats.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a long-standing, unreasoning, petit-bourgeois/Pabloist anti-golf > sensibility on this list. I think it stems from an aversion to fertilizer, > plus a lack of appreciation of the extent to which workers play golf at > public courses. There may also be some resentment over the deprivation of > green space for naked hippies to gambol through. There is also the ageist > bias against those of us too old for hackey-sack. > > I've been a caddy and a golfer. The former pastime sharpened my sense of > class struggle, plus it got me some good money and taught me some filthy > jokes related by the tough Italian kids from Paterson. I heartily recommend > it to the youth. > > > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:38 PM, David B. Shemano <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I just returned from a brief vacation in Carmel, CA, and discovered my >> email clogged with dozens of email regarding the propriety of pro-Obama >> posts. Fascinating reading. Thanks for 10 minutes of my life I will never >> get back deleting the emails. >> >> Talking about Obama, he loves golf. Plays it as much as he can. While in >> Carmel, I played a round at Pebble Beach, which is one of the ultimate life >> events for a golfer. So I ask you PEN-L members: >> >> 1. My sense is there an an anti-golf progressive sensibility. Why? >> 2. From my persective, the Pebble Beach golf course is one of the most >> serene, aesthetically pleasing, uses of a majestic coastline imaginable. I >> truly believe that my life is better because the golf course exists (even if >> I never played it), in the sense my life is better because Mozart wrote a >> concerto, or the Eiffel Tower was built. It is difficult to imagine that it >> could be built today for a variety of reasons, but, assuming a hypothetical >> socialist California, could or should it be built? >> 3. The golf course offers and encourages the use of caddies. What is the >> correct progressive response to the use of caddies? If use the caddie, I am >> creating a master-servant anti-democratic relationship with another human >> being, while if I don't use the caddie, I am depriving another human being >> of limited means his daily income. What is the correct choice? >> >> David Shemano >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Jim Devine "All science would be superfluous if the form of appearance of things directly coincided with their essence." -- KM _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
