On Nov 7, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> Shane: "your caricature of the philistine notion of mass
> irrationality"
>
> [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."
Well, you are the one who wrote about "irrational antipathy towards government." And I'm the one who thinks that in the US antipathy towards the government is both rational and praiseworthy.
> 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.
How amusing to hear that these eminent empirical sociologists have some pipeline to the "beginning of humankind." Despite being good god- fearing Christian gentlemen, they have not the least conception of why every myth, every religion, every magic ritual expresses the notion that *the gods are to be feared. the gods are greatly to be feared*
Shane Mage
God said to Abraham, kill me a son Abe said man, you must be putting me on God said you can do what you want, Abe But the next time you see me coming, better run.
>>> [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!