ravi wrote:
>but it seems, there are other segments of the left that insist on the
>primacy of their ideology, their analysis, sometimes to the exclusion of
>all else. what are we to say of them?
>
"Know thyself"? "Grow up"?
The appreciation and love of ideas starts with adolescence and since many people never outgrow their adolescence, there they stay. It is far easier to love ideas than people because ideas come with ready-made distinct boundaries. But, as R.K. Narayan continually reminds us, life is almost never black and white; it is almost entirely gray. People who cannot accept or process gray, love ideas and fundamentally hate humanity and its messiness.
Some of these people inhabit the "left"; others the "right." Whatever their differences, they share a similar kind of intolerance and self-righteousness.
Joanna