And then he signs off:
> Sent from my iPhone
Do you write under the nom de plume Saki? :-)
I also like Carrol's portmanteau :-) "disco ruse" to describe the preoccupation and distraction of the previous generation.
-- ravi
>
> 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.