[lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans?

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>You sure took your Walt Whitman pills this morning -- The People, ya gotta 
>>love 'em!  But my point is not that working-class USers in particular are 
>>dolts; Americans of *all* classes float around in an amniotic sac of 
>>complacency and ignorance.  This is not new (see Dickens' _American 
>>Notes_, e.g.), but it has gotten much, much, much worse during the reign 
>>of Chimpanzee in Chief GWB.
>
>About 10 years ago, I sat in the WBAI studio with Bob Fitch as host Mimi 
>Rosenberg went on about how awful white people are. When she was done, Bob 
>asked her, "Mimi, if white people are so awful, how'd you turn out so 
>good?" So Carl - if Americans are so dumb, how'd you turn out so smart?
>
>Doug

Ah, there's a question bearing as staggering a load as, when did you stop 
beating your wife?

But I will duly take your megalomania-bait and just say that I see my 
uncanny insight as God-given.  And as is so like the prankish Almighty, what 
a Job-like affliction this piercing intellect has been -- reducing me to a 
socially marginal existence, whiling away the hours throwing cyber-spitballs 
on listserves ;-)

Carl