Dennis Perrin:
> >> Really? I thought that was your main goal, if not life purpose, Carrol.
Gordon Fitch wrote:
> >Claiming moral superiority by criticizing others for
> >claiming moral superiority is a terrible and persistent
> >vice.
kelley at pulpculture.org:
> so why did you reply? just to show that you share the same 'vice'? <nice
> word choice gordon, as it is typically contrasted with 'virtue'. heh. and
> 'round and 'round we go. weeeeeeeeeeeee!>
Let all things by _Vice_ be done;
Vice hath Conscience; _Virtue_, none.
Tahir wrote:
> >>Yet we are to believe that all this led to "radical social change" and
> >>that it was therefore kind of worthwhile in some way.
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >No, you are not to believe "it" is "worthwhile," but whatever "it" is (be
> >it war, peace, economic crisis, economic boom, or anything else), you have
> >to make the best of "it," instead of merely bitching and moaning about it,
> >because your enemy will if you don't. Don't mourn, organize.
kelley at pulpculture.org:
> shhhhh. be vewy vewy quiet.
>
> we're huntin' converts to the rewo. we organize anti-war groups and work
> wit' lotsa peace activists but don' eva tell 'em what we weally think. you
> can't infwuence gubmint powicy wike da peace activists think. but dez warm
> bodies for da revo, jiss like da warm bodies dat be bleedin and dyin' in da
> coming rewo.
>
> shhhhh.
In this orgy of intralist correction, let me -- now that I have successfully reproved meta-moral-criticism -- suggest as well that when contributors' contributions are rewritten to reveal the repulsiveness of their hidden, inner meanings, some connection should be cleverly drawn between what they say and what they are made to say. For instance, all Yoshie writes above is that when things turn bad, leftists should be ready to deal with the badness and move on -- a seemingly incontrovertible recommendation even if we were Boy Scouts; not that they should inspire, provoke, or actually produce the badness. Lenin's smirk remains unrevealed by the parody which follows, which possibly should have been cast in a _Russian_ accent.
-- Gordon