[lbo-talk] Stan Goff -- Windbag?

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Thu Feb 8 11:20:51 PST 2007


Yoshie:

Grandstanding is fun, and fun is good, according to the ethos of LBO-talk.
:->

Seriously, human beings have an ancient desire for the heroic mode of rhetoric. The epic is the oldest genre of poetry.

^^^^^ ^^^^

[WS:] Granted. But what if that mode undercuts the chances of achieving a real life success?

Wojtek

^^^^^^

CB: And Stan's got an epic tale to tell, like a rank and file Smedley Butler, marching on the ruling class, to the sound of bagpipes. That might be the windbag heard. If Stan is a windbag, at least he ain't playing British Grenadiers.

Lboers don't have much of a record of real life success such that their opinions on what helps or undercuts chances of real world success should carry much weight, no ? Chavez is getting success with grandstanding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

Get a t-shirt of "windbag"

wind.bag (wndbg) n. 1. The flexible air-filled chamber of a bagpipe or similar instrument 2. Slang A talkative person who communicates nothing of substance or interest.



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