[lbo-talk] Straussian moralist as high rolling gamber

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Sat May 3 16:34:00 PDT 2003


On Sat, 3 May 2003 14:27:54 -0700 (PDT) andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> writes:
> Sinclair Lewis wrote that book a long time ago -- Elmer Gantry, I
> believe. jks

Bennett says that he sees no moral issues with his gambling. Was he speaking exoterically or esoterically?

Jim F.


>
> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:Jim Farmelant wrote:
>
> >Relentless Moral Crusader Is Relentless Gambler
> >By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
> >Online reports assert that William J. Bennett, author of
> >"The Book of Virtues" and a relentless moral crusader, has
> >lost more than $8 million at casinos in the last decade.
>
> Slavoj has a riff somewhere about how things like this aren't
> hypocrisy, but are instead an illustration of the inseparability of
> hypermoralism and prurience - the two go inseparbly together, like
> Jimmy Swaggart and prostitutes.
>
> Doug
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