>>I thought Cooper's piece was a pile of crap -- why spend the first part of
>>precious space about PA on trashing domestic folks
>
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>Its part of the process of molting that turns one into a
>neoconservative. First one finds the attempted implementations of
>"non-hierarchical participatory democracy" (i) boring. Then one
>finds them (ii) counterproductive and time-wasting. Then one finds
>them (iii) culturally offensive. Then one finds them (iv)
>manipulative and deceitful. Then one finds them (v) totalitarian.
>
>Nathan is still at stage (i). I am at stage (ii). Cooper is clearly
>sliding from stage (iii) into stage (iv). And by the time one
>reaches stage (v), one starts writing for _Commentary_ and the
>_National Review_.
Where one is finally free of the offensive, manipulative, deceitful, and totalitarian?
Some day I'll dig out & scan the excellent Spy mag piece from the late 1980s by a former NR intern, where he recounts all the racist jokes the editors amused themselves with.
Doug