[lbo-talk] Fwd: Rick Warren should be in prison
Miles Jackson
cqmv at pdx.edu
Sat Sep 22 12:04:29 PDT 2007
Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> Robert Wrubel wrote:
>
>>
>>I notice that we are just as bloody in war as any of
>>Homer's heroes (more so, in fact, because more
>>de-personalized.) Are our "humanitarian"
>>justifications for war more civilized than Homer's
>>"honor"?
>
>
> Accepting (provisionally) your use of "civilized" as a positive, the
> high point of civilization to date is Book 24 of the Iliad. Dante &
> Shakespeare don't come even close to equalling it.
>
> Carrol
I must respectfully disagree. The absolute zenith of civilization is
undoubtedly "I wanna be sedated" by the reknown poet Jeffry Ross Hyman.
Miles
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