[lbo-talk] Nature, Alienation, Mediation, Values... oh, and "Natives, " just for fun

[// ravi]

On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> At 06:44 PM 7/6/2011, // ravi wrote:
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>> dare I say I was moved by the passion in lbo1729's first post,
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> Sucker.  So he gets a pass for making ridiculous assumptions based on... I still don't know what?
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>> understood his reference to LBO as urbane/what-not as a defensive gesture and not central to his point or motivation.
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> So why include it?
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Because he felt defensive, I guess? People do that all the time, don’t they, barring the most self-confident ones? If drawing some sort of hard line between country “authenticity” and alleged LBO style urbane “alienation” was his central point, then indeed I have been suckered.


> 
>> I don't wish to grudge you and Dennis your outrage
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> It doesn't rise to that level.  This is an instance where what you call Dwayne's law is instructive.  You characterize our posts as flavored by outrage but lbopg13's are passionate?  feh
> 

Fair criticism. “Outrage” was the wrong word.

	—ravi