Thus far I have avoided golf at all costs! Try playing squash, colonial as it may sound, or upper crust Bostonian or whatever.
Anthony On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa Professor of Indian Studies and Research Director Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Dalgas Have 15 DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Ph: +45 3815 2572 Fax: +45 3815 2500 http://uk.cbs.dk/arc www.cbs.dk/india http://www.thisismodernindia.com/this_is_modern_india_about_us.html xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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