After they win...

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Sun Oct 21 13:52:25 PDT 2001


I do not disagree with you, but in order to make headway in explaining what is happening, I think that you might have to avoid telling people that their ignorance makes them responsible.

Also, ignorance is this country is carefully cultivated.

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 04:15:56PM -0400, Mina Kumar wrote:
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> >From: Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu>
> >Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> >Subject: Re: After they win...
> >Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 09:59:14 -0700
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> >One difficulty with the chickens come home to roost is that it often
> >sounds as if the audience was largely responsible when in fact most people
> >have no idea that all of what American policy actually is.
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> They are responsible for their ignorance. No one in Jamaica or Afghanistan
> or Iran is ignorant in the same way because it is not a privilege that
> accrues to those outside the imperium.
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> The
> >distinction has to be made clear that the responsibility is with the
> >policymakers and not individual. Yes, I note that we all share in the
> >responsibility but that analysis must come later.
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> Later after what?
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