>My point wasn't that you didn't or that you don't know, it's that
>these comments don't reflect that knowledge, and this is what makes
>people react.
I've been writing for an audience that I assumed knew the things I've said here and elsewhere.
There's a sad convention in a lot of left writing that you have to invoke a whole litany of sins and crimes before you can say anything. Maybe it's just an American thing, I don't know. But it often makes the stuff clotted and unreadable. I'd thought I could dispense with it here.
>Do you realize how cliched you're being?
To quote X-Ray Spex, I am a cliche.
>You may get jollies out of other people watching Titanic and
>drinking Pepsi, but I have no such (nationalistic?) feelings.
Actually I spent a good deal of my life denouncing U.S. cultural imperialism, and attributing it purely to economic power. It's only over the last year or so that I started thinking that things were more complicated than that.
Pepsi's too sweet for me, I much prefer Coke.
Doug