[lbo-talk] the Green Nazi platform

[ravi]

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 10:49 -0800, joanna bujes wrote:
>
> 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.

well put!

	--ravi