[lbo-talk] NYT: "The Class-Consciousness Raiser"

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Wed Jun 13 11:51:18 PDT 2007


bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:


> But it makes complete sense since, of course, she mentions reading a
>
>self-help new age book. her gushing about this only made me think of a
>contestant winning on The Price Is Right. You go grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl.
>And it makes complete sense because it becomes a psychological road map to
>success in the corporate world -- all the new agey you can be rich by
>making a list and willing the universe to bring your dreams to you.
>
Yes, I had a buddhist-new-agey woman tell me once that we all get what we deserve.

"Even the people in Auschwitz?" I asked.

"Yes." She replied.

She was not an anti-semite. I'm sure if I had asked about lynchings in the South, she would have said the same.

Joanna



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