From Kelley to Chuck Grimes:
>of course, every word you utter is a moral judgment on gordon and
>anyone else who might think (what you think is) your coldly
>calculating amorality is wrong and immoral.
A while ago, in a thread on "senses of humor," I wrote to Chuck:
>Laughter wasn't invented by the dominant ideology, but earnest
>exhortations to cultivate a "sense of humor" must have been. :) If
>anyone wants to encourage the comic as the rhetorical mode of choice
>among leftists, it defeats the purpose to say: "I have yelled at ATC
>about this for years, for all the difference it makes. The problem
>is that people on the left are earnest, dull, and irony-impaired.
>--jks." The comic has to be performed, not declaimed.
I should have perhaps added that the same goes for morality. The moral has to be performed, not declaimed.
Yoshie