[lbo-talk] Sacrificial rationality

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Sun Nov 7 15:22:15 PST 2010


On Nov 7, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
>
> [WS:] So face it, lefties, the voters decided to sacrifice Democrats
> to
> avert bad luck and vent their irrational antipathy towards government.
> Blaming O's administration is blaming the victim of this sacrifice.

So you say nobody can know what motivates Obama/Summers/Geithner/ Bernanke & co., but you *know* that the *Obama-2008* voters who dumped the dumbos were motivated (to stay home, to vote Repugnicon, to spoil their ballots) by your caricature of the philistine notion of mass irrationality. Staying home as an apotropaic ritual like the Sacrifice of Isaac!

Shane Mage

This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it

always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,

kindling in measures and going out in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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