joyce brothers wrote:
>Doug. It's funny you should say that. For the 99th
>time in 10 or 20 years, I thought, damn, I hate the
>working class. As you may or may not remember, I AM
>the working class.
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>But I'm pissed. They complain. Or not. But they
>don't vote. They won't. They are obsessed with
>sports. Why? Maybe because it's a common language?
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Or maybe because it's an "even playing field" where physical prowess,
skill, and the team count.
Joanna
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>--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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>>On Jun 15, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Jim Straub wrote:
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>>>I am amazed at how shocked you are that antioch
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>>types are
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>>>scoffed at! Perhaps a little unfairly, but, here
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>>we are- its the
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>>>world we
>>>live in. You gotta get with it to get with it.
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>>I'm not shocked. I've lived in this world a pretty
>>long time. But you
>>seem to think there's some wisdom in the position. I
>>don't. It's a
>>right-wing impulse - to focus class resentment on
>>liberals and
>>intellectuals. (And this impulse isn't even
>>fact-based: Dennis
>>Redmond has said several times that Antioch isn't
>>really a bastion of
>>rich hippies.) In the American case, Lenin was wrong
>>- the
>>spontaneous consciousness of our working class is a
>>laugh at the
>>fancy-pants consciousness. It hasn't served them
>>very well, has it?
>>
>>Doug
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