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Doug did specifically attribute this to actions of individuals and he was at a loss as to how they could do such a thing.
Further, Carrol called "this" -- the assertion/rhetorical question -- stupid, not Doug.
We have consumption politics and aesthetic politics. Left snobbery at its finest. One thing I know for sure. For years I looked forward to meeting people on the list. After years of reading this sort of thing, I'll pass thank you. I'm sure my Walmart finery wouldn't pass muster.
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> >
> > How could they? Instead the prospective owners should have chopped down
> > a couple douglas firs with their little dime-store hatchets, split them
> > into boards with their pen knives, wrapped them together with vines they
> > gathered on the mountain side. This is stupid -- as bad as Tully's
> > statement that we all chooser to be wage-slaves.
> >
> > Carrol
>
>How does somebody with such consistently poor analysis end up being a
>teacher of literature? Tully says workers are their own exploiters. Doug
>says there's crappy architecture all over Oregon. Carrol equates these two
>arguments, and, despite his tiresome objections about being uninterested in
>the qualitative origins of people's ideas, calls Doug "stupid," to boot!
>
>In my kinder moments, I think Carrol's problem is just a severe excess of
>loyalty over thought. At other times, I just think he's a porthole.
>
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