[lbo-talk] another DH loves BHO in Cairo

Left-Wing Wacko leftwingwacko at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 12:27:20 PDT 2009


On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:


>
> On Jun 7, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
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>
>> But people don't just add up numbers. They think "oh holy crap, somebody
>> rammed planes into large buildings, maybe we should do something." Really,
>> grow up. People in the elite are people and therefore act like people. It's
>> not a game run by malevolent supercomputers.
>>
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>
> Nobody ever accused Bush and Cheney of being "malevolent supercomputers."
> Supermalevolent mafioso gonifs, yes indeed. But supercomputers, not. And
> isn't it something close to a slander against the human race to call them
> "people?"
>
> Shane Mage
>

But I think Doss's point was pointing out the error of seeing the imperial elites as some undifferentiated, unitary, omniscient, and rational agent. Right? If that's not his point, then I will claim it.

(Wrote this yesterday, so maybe its out of place now)


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