[lbo-talk] RE: USA Dumb and Dumber

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Sun Apr 4 22:44:07 PDT 2004


Q: ...I ... find your emphasis on compassion simplistic. We know from Freud that all true achievement derives from selfishness. Who cares if Michelangelo was nice to his next-door neighbors?

A: Religions are not dealing with geniuses. They are dealing with ordinary people. ____________________________ This line of reasoning is so fucked...as if "genius" and "art" were simply examples of overachievement. As if composing "Don Giovanni" was fed by the same impulse as building Toys R Us.

"We know from Freud that all true achievement derives from selfishness." What utter hogwash!

ugh,

Joanna



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