[lbo-talk] Re: Bush invaded Iraq because...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 12 16:20:31 PDT 2004


Ted Winslow wrote:


>
>Doug wrote:
>
>>Let me try this one more time.
>
>Keynes wrote:
>
>"I still suffer incurably from attributing an unreal rationality to
>other people's feelings and behaviour (and doubtless to my own,
>too). There is one small but extraordinarily silly manifestation of
>this absurd idea of what is 'normal', namely the impulse to
>_protest_ - to write a letter to _The Times_, call a meeting in the
>Guildhall, subscribe to some fund when my presuppositions as to what
>is 'normal' are not fulfilled. I behave as if there really existed
>some authority or standard to which I can successfully appeal if I
>shout loud enough - perhaps it is some hereditary vestige of a
>belief in the efficacy of prayer." (Collected Writings, vol. X, p.
>448)

Ok, since I don't believe in the efficacy of prayer, I'll give up.

Doug



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