[lbo-talk] Marc Cooper's flipping out over Churchill

[philion at stolaf.edu]

"Sounds like he's talking about an elevator repair guy to me. They're a
"technocratic corps", them, and those people who run the heating and
cooling systems, the IT people devirusing computers, the cash register
operators--after all, cash registers are just little computers--in the
restaurant.

Sorry, but this piece of writing is, as a work of rhetoric, crap."

Well, yes, the rhetoric was less than effective--I've seen similar results
when delivered in Hawaii by acolytes of Churchill. But but you're
confusing disagreement with distortions of the argument with agreement
about the argument. No, if you read the entire argument, it's clear that
he's not referring to elevator repairmen.
Nonetheless, even recognising that, I'm not inclined to buy into the
argument for reasons already expresed by both Yoshie and Doug.  But,
sorry, Cooper and Nathan just distort the argument and then argue against
that distortion.