[lbo-talk] "Cheer the Fuck Up"

[Ted Winslow]

C.G. Estabrook wrote:

> Where (as the shrinks would say) is the excess affect coming from, 
> Doug?
> Yoshie/Slavoj seem to me to be making important points here about 
> pleasure
> and duty. And -- more importantly -- they seem to be right.  --CGE

What's mistaken, let alone "totalitarian," about the idea that 
happiness is doing what we ought to do?  In any event, the soldiers in 
Iraq were behaving more in accord with the ethics of Foucault and Zizek 
than with those of Aristotle and Kant, weren't they?  "Violent 
transgression."

Ted