>I have a few words for Doug, Louis, and you too John...
>Simple-minded Vicious Assholes.
"Simple-minded?" No, in fact I was set off (and I suspect
so too were Doug and Louis, but I'm not their mouthpiece)
by Eric's consistently demonstrated "simple-mindedness,"
his repeated insistence that one can learn most of what
one needs to know about the reality of the Chinese political
economy by tuning into CCTV and reading the English-
language People's Daily. (Unfortunately characters like
this, who no matter their "well-meaning" guise are not
capable of Socratic dialogue, frequent Louis' list and he
can smell them coming from a mile away.)
"Vicious"? Well, I confess that I let my spleen get the
better of me, not a felicitous trait... I lose all self-control
when subjected to cloying boilerplate, no matter the
source.
"Asshole"? Oh dear, even my momma thinks I'm an asshole.
>I have more important things to do than
>read these vapid critiques instead of learning, teaching...
Leigh, it is truly rich of you to harp on others' character
flaws. I myself resided in Santa Cruz for the better part
of a decade, yet never felt compelled to narcissistically
subject a captive maillist audience to posts about local
political minutiae, about which 99% of Pen-L members
assuredly don't give a fuck.
>The impressing on other people of your own ideas/concepts
>about how thing work without a moronic piling-on to anyone
>who thinks otherwise.
>How fucking 'American' can you get.
Care to expand on this? To me it seems like yet another
provincial USian "radical" trying to show how cosmopolitan
he/she is and in so doing betraying just how provincial he/she
is... as the Chinese themselves have proven during various
ideological campaigns, there's nothing distinctly "American"
about gangs of bullies piling on.
>I'm out of here for a while...
How does that adage about the door and your backside go
again?
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