[lbo-talk] Americans disapprove Obama's handing of the economy

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 14:25:14 PDT 2011


CB: CB: I like your overall analogy to witchhunting, but in both cases the minds are not "primitive" but civilized.:

[WS:] My point was that there is not much difference between "primitive" and "civilized" minds.

Wojtek

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:01 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Woj: In both cases the primitive mind imagines that disasters are
> willed by powerful individuals. All that matters is to attribute the
> blame to an acceptable scapegoat - witches in the dark medieval ages
> and governments in the equally dark modern ages - and punish them in a
> public spectacle for the rabble.
>
> CB: I like your overall analogy to witchhunting, but in both cases the
> minds are not "primitive" but civilized.
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