On Feb 24, 2012, at 12:12 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> I have a suspicion that it only makes sense if you have a good grasp of a more sociological or anthropolotical understanding of the world. Someone here, a few months ago, poo pooed the idea that it matters, for example, that people felt transformed by the experience of direct democracy. they saw it as crazy and cultish that rational human beings might get caught up in something as silly as the effervescent excitement what was going on around them. This does make little sense to the manly man approach to politics as one where individuals make rational decisions about self-interest and public interest.
Who actually holds that "manly man" point of view? I can't imagine anyone, from Lenin to an SEIU organizer, who would.
Doug