[lbo-talk] This is Your Pilot Slurring

[Chris Doss]

Really, what else is a peasant gonna do? You can't read. There's no TV. You've already had the same conversations with everybody in the village a thousand times. For recreation there's church, hunting, and the occasional festival with dancing and music... and nothing else. Plus, harvest was ages ago and it's mid-winter and it's fucking cold. You're not going to go for long walks in the woods (that you already know like the back of your hand).

--- On Thu, 2/5/09, John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com> wrote:


> From: John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] This is Your Pilot Slurring
> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Cc: "John Gulick" <john_gulick at hotmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 4:20 PM
> Doss:
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> ...peasants do not have a whole lot of sources of
> entertainment and, contrary to myth, 
> spend a lot of time with nothing to do. You have periods of
> intense work and periods 
> of more or less nothing. So you drink.Gulick:
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> Jeez, this makes me feel sorry for anarcho-communist types.
> Their optimistic vision of the
> radical democratic potential of humanity seems to rest
> heavily on how the Russian peasantry
> steadfastly devoted their leisure time to village councils
> and the like... you know, the Narodniki
> and all that. Oops. Although I guess binge drinking and
> political deliberation aren't mutually
> exclusive. Look at the Russian Duma circa 1993.
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