Carrol Cox wrote: >> What is different about the present to generate such gloom?
jmp wrote: > That the leftist elite - and bourgeois academics - find their own > livelihoods threatened? Who are you criticizing, jmp? be specific. Or is this simply a drive-by slam at people you disagree with, without feeling the need to be specific about (or to defend) the points of your disagreement? To assert or imply that someone's opinions reflect only their economic interests simply says that you have absolutely no reason to discuss issues seriously with them, since you don't respect their opinions at all. jmp, what elite are _you_ speaking for? (By the way, a simple reason why people on pen-l might be gloomy is that the vast majority of people -- and not just some "bourgeois academics" -- are being screwed by the system and we have empathy.) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
