>>Bradford DeLong wrote:
>>
>>>>I thought Cooper's piece was a pile of crap -- why spend the first part of
>>>>precious space about PA on trashing domestic folks
>>>
>>>
>>>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?
>>
>>Doug
>
>I wouldn't know. I'm only at stage ii...
Well I've been there, and back: <http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/bs/36/henwood.html>.