[WS:] If there is any caricature here, it is the above statement. I did not say it is "irrationality" but rationality of a different kind than the Weberian "purpose rationality." It is the same rationality as one underlying magic rituals since the beginning of humankind. Check out Malinowski's anthropological studies of myth and magic or Meyer & Rowan's work on myth in modern organizations. The left does not understand this other form of rationality - it either calls it "false consciousness" or denies its existence by changing the subject to blaming institutions.
Wojtek
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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>> [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.
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> 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!
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> Shane Mage
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> 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."
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> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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