[lbo-talk] infrastructure

[Carrol Cox]

Without a huge and careful collection of empirical evidence, and some 
sort of error checking, it seems pretty silly to make generalized 
statements about the occupants of any given area of land, anyplace. I've 
been complaining about such generalization falmost since the list began. 
Perhaps it's merely a feature of e-mail lists.

But I am getting really (or as my daughter would have said at 5 or 6, 
really really really) pissed off at random charges that this, that or 
the other behavior is phoney or inauthentic.  That is almost always -- 
no, always -- pure horseshit. It brings to mind the most disgraceful 
thread in the history of this list, the hissy fit about West after the 
Left Forum.

Carrol

On 7/20/2011 6:36 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
>
>> One funny thing is that angelinos are obsessed with themselves. Just
>> turn on a tv in LA and LA is all you will see, as if the rest of world
>> didn't exist.
>
>
> You gotta watch the channels in languages other than English.
>
>
>> I guess what pissed me off the most was the completely phoney
>> character of the rich and semi-rich.
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> That crowd is better elsewhere?
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>> There is that sense that you live on the edge of the world because of
>> the ocean.
>
>
> Not so much for me. I never go to the beach. I think that's true of
> millions of others who live here too.
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