On Oct 10, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Chris Doss
> <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> What people believe in this Religion of Progress? This hasn't been
>> widespread for decades. Its last bastion was probably the USSR.
>
> Belief in the Inevitablity of Progress is a bit like fucking sheep or
> constituting the Balkans. It's difficult to find anyone who will own
> up to
> the deed, but every community has the folk belief that some other
> specific
> community is in fact guilty.
Funny how Carrol dismisses generalizations about the left, because of all the irreducible particularities, and condemns attributions of motive as bad faith, but isn't shy about spouting this sort of nonsense.