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> Muchos gracias for the inference of youthfulness. I am 48 and will
> match your world-weariness disillusionment for disillusionment. But I
You're welcome but I'm not talking disillusionment. I'm not disillusioned because the world did not erupt in financial panic and economic collapse. I'm actually grateful.
> haven't given up yet. As I sit here in my office, I gain inspiration
> from the "SMC -- Nov. 6" button stuck up on my wall. The younger people
> in my office (just about everybody else) don't have a clue what that
> button means, but to me it serves a great reminder of what mass
> movements CAN accomplish.
Fine! Me too. So?
> In that connection, re your other comment: "Expectations of imminent
> collapse which are
> not met are often followed by political demoralization and inactivity,
> or by what
> LP has called 'mutation' of left into right."
>
> As a trigger of demoralization and inactivity, the greater danger is
> posed by the expectation that things will basically NEVER change and the
> best we can hope to do is amuse ourselves -- either by noodling around
> with marginal changes in the tax code or engaging in flights of fancy in
> "high theory."
That things can "never" change is not a very fair reflection of my views, much less what I spend all of my time doing. My work does have its amusements, but it is not one long belly-laugh from 9 to 5.
Nor am I an habitual proposer of "marginal changes in the tax code." And I haven't had a flight of fancy in years. Once again we have a relativism issue. In what I take to be actual politics, I'm cutting edge. On LBO, I'm cold potatoes.
> Oh, and since you're not playing tennis -- or golf, it seems -- today,
> you might take a glance at the Bloomberg. The Dow's down 220 as I
> write.
As I said before, wake me when it goes up again.
Cheers,
MBS