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

// ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Mon Oct 17 17:10:33 PDT 2011


On Oct 17, 2011, at 6:10 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote:
> You'd be right, but this isn't my narrative. I spend the piece disputing that caricature.
>

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.



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