[lbo-talk] me, in Truthdig: Our Delusions of Grandeur Will Save the World

Bhaskar Sunkara bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 15:10:18 PDT 2011


You'd be right, but this isn't my narrative. I spend the piece disputing that caricature.

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On Oct 17, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> On 10/17/2011 4:18 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 17, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
>>
>>> We have no discernible gifts or achievements to our
>>> name, but our parents tell us that we’re going to be just great. We use the
>>> “like” button on Facebook to tell one another the same thing. Narcissists to
>>> the core, we believe the hype.
>>
>> Elsewhere, the story of your generation:
>>
>> http://nymag.com/news/features/my-generation-2011-10/
>
> This is probably quite wrong. But the phrase "to the core" turns it from probably being wrong to arrant nonsense not fit for civilized discoruse.
>
> Carrol
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