[lbo-talk] Fantasies of Left Liberalism

[Michael Dawson]

Leftists could take a lesson from Jared Diamond, who is careful to explain
that the only reason to talk about problems is hope for bettering
intervention.


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> On Behalf Of Jon Johanning
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> I suspect that the image of the "gloomy leftist" is not due so much to
> experiences with actual depressive and/or depressing individuals as it
> is to the fact that so much Left writing seems to be an unrelieved list
> of disasters past, present or predicted. The people writing this
> material may be perfectly cheerful in person, but what emerges from
> their keyboards, pens, pencils or whatever is quite the opposite.
> 
> 
> Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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> poetry and doubt. -- Cyril Connoll (The Unquiet Grave)
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