----- Original Message ---- From: Gar Lipow <the.typo.boy at gmail.com>
Never understood the love for small business.
[WS:] Small business is the central and much revered icon of American popular mythology - another one is the military. I see it as a mixture of populist anti-intellectualism and xenophobia. Small mom-an-pop shop is "gemuetlich" ans thus a part of "us" - big institutions like government and corporation (together with liberal elites) are a part of the remote urban culture and thus the "evil them."
Wojtek