[lbo-talk] virtue terrorists

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Aug 25 10:47:34 PDT 2007


On Aug 25, 2007, at 12:11 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote:


> We've been here before, too. Reason is a pretty weak weapon
> against fear-based emotion.
>
> "The best lack all conviction/
> The worst are full of passionate intensity"

As I've pointed out before, Harold Bloom says that that passage was an expression of Yeats's fascist sympathies.

Doug



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