[lbo-talk] "Cheer the Fuck Up"

[Doug Henwood]

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

Uh, if i were endorsing totalitarian power and repressive torture, 
they might be relevant points. Rather on the opposite end of the 
spectrum, I was urging people to take pleasure in the victories 
(however partial, however incomplete, etc. etc. yeah yeah yeah) of 
the civil rights movement, feminism, and GLBTQ liberation. You should 
have seen Cal Thomas and the authors of Cracking the Code on Fox last 
night anguishing over the victories of the secularists. It was kind 
of beautiful.

Doug