Re: A conversation overheard

2003-12-12 Thread Mike Ballard
My take on the phenomenon from an April 24th post to LBO below. Regards, Mike B) Zizek indicates that people don't want to know, they like the idea of being represented by a simpleton (Bush) who is manipulated behind the scenes by the evil intellectual genius (Cheney)

Re: A conversation overheard

2003-12-11 Thread andie nachgeborenen
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: Jefferson, "On Slavery," Notes On the States of Virginia, p. 171 in my edition. --- joanna bujes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I fear to think of what it will take to wake this > country up...o

Re: A conversation overheard

2003-12-11 Thread Brian McKenna
Adventurer marxists hope to foment revolution and will take some credit for it when it occurs, rightly so. . .but it'll likely come upon us like a midnight storm, cracking the roofs, jolting us awake. . .  

Re: A conversation overheard

2003-12-11 Thread joanna bujes
I fear to think of what it will take to wake this country up...or what will happen if they choose not to. Joanna Eugene Coyle wrote: Stopped at an I-Hop for lunch on the road today. Three women, dressed as office workers, perhaps 25 - 35 years old, took the next table. They chatted, then one spo

A conversation overheard

2003-12-11 Thread Eugene Coyle
Stopped at an I-Hop for lunch on the road today. Three women, dressed as office workers, perhaps 25 - 35 years old, took the next table. They chatted, then one spoke of a friend in the service in Iraq, working on restoring the electrical grid. They'd come under attack, and one boy lost an arm, a