[lbo-talk] why "we" don't care about big, structural, issues

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 8 07:32:08 PDT 2006


hey, it's a very superficial liberal interpretation, but it's fun. [I love the line about the mustache.] At least it shows that psychologists can be worse than economists.

There is some truth to the piece, though it's very small.

On 7/7/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 7, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
>
> > If only gay sex caused global warming
> > Why we're more scared of gay marriage and terrorism than a much
> > deadlier threat.
> > By Daniel Gilbert
>
> Hmm, not a word about the fact that we don't want to give up cars &
> suburbs?
>
> Doug
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-- Jim Devine / "It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness." -- G. K.Chesterton.



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