[lbo-talk] Obama's betrayal of hope

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 07:06:47 PST 2009


My last sentence here should have read "And most changes provoked by the latter than would have inevitably occurred as results of the former," without the "not," which I swear I don't remember typing. Damn keyboard gremlins.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:

Sure, but it seems to me that, in most cases, the middle link of the chain
> has proven unnecessary. Governments modify their behavior in response to
> economic and technological development all the time; changes to accommodate
> popular pressure are, I think, much rarer. And most changes provoked by the
> latter than would not have inevitably occurred as results of the former.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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