Underpopulation

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Oct 25 13:35:30 PDT 1999


Doug Henwood wrote:


> And then there's the neo-primitivist line, nicely exemplified by this
> creepy rant from Auto-Free Times,


> Auto-Free Times - Winter 1999
>
> OUR [emph. added] relationship [snip] nearly severed, leaving US
> without the [SNIP] allowed for OUR evolution.

While there are too many exceptions to make it a general rule, the use of the first person plural is always a potential mark of creepiness. Kenneth Burke has some good things on the tricks that "we" can play.

Carrol



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