> As expected, your reaction, Leigh
> Oscar Lewis, man of the Left, gets slammed as neo-con.
> Betcha never heard of Lewis before and are venting your ignorance.
> Now, if you want to read a truly ignorant, smug neo-con
> bastrdization of what you feel Lewis was saying, read, "The Dream and
> The Nightmare, " by Myron Magnet, a Manhattan Institute loon. Blurbed
> by a then Governor Gorge W. Bush. Blames the inner city "underclass"
> on the sixties counter-culture.
Your right. Never heard of him. Man of which "left"?
As far as venting, sure. Ignorant? Relative to what? Poverty and how it affects people? [if one wants to assume that the lack of large quanities of money is a hinderance, more than a help to building humane society.]
At least 95% of the people that I associate with regularly live on less than $10,000 dollars a year. That IS poverty in America, isn't it?
This year I will have done OK on $12,000, and the people that I do share with, I share with because, not only do they share with me, but...
*MOST* *IMPORTANTLY*
...no one's keeping score of who "owes" who. The ones that engage in *that* sort of "sharing" are typically recently "downsized" middleclass(psychologial DPs), and/or drug/alchohol addicts.
"I owe *you* one", is just an expression of gratitude, not part of a belief system. My standard reply is, "when you have it, give it to someone who needs it." If it turns out to be me... that's OK too.
My friends that have less don't begrudge me for my laptop...
They know I'm making good use of it as a computer, and it would not be any more valuable in their hands, or as $$$
Addicts and obsessive-compulsives think like that.
All in all, we seem do OK as community without people like Oscar Lewis telling us our thoughts and motivations are anti-community.
I'm just being the "prole", to his seemly elitist "man of the Left" way of thinking about the "poor". You claimed I branded him neocon. That's not true. I think he just doesn't "get it".
No wonder the American "left" got thugged when it "went to work".
It doesn't "get" poor people, and it's highly unlikely that it understands the "plight" of the workers either... unless there's something in it for "left".
Woj:
> Leigh:
>> Bullshit.
> Wow, what a clear and incisive analysis. And the conclusion is simply
> irrefutable.
> Wojtek
<...>
Well... The post said:
>
> This list is by no means complete. So please share your views.
>
>> OK, if you insist:
>>
>> 1> Amusing, this fellow has similar beliefs (and undoubtedly moral values) similar
>> to those FBI agents that followed him for all those years. middle class apple pie.
>>
>> 2> The rest was also BS, and redacted for brevity.
Call it Asbergers syndrome, gonna go self-medicate now.
Leigh www.leighm.net
ahhhhh. much better.