[lbo-talk] Spanish promiscuity or German erectile dysfunction?

[Michael Smith]

> > > You're out there in fucking Illinois, where the unemployment rate
> > > is 9%, far from Greece or Spain, where it's like 25%. Easy for
> > > you to say.
> > 
> > And easier still when you're not even among the 9%, but a
> > comfortably retired professor of English literature vicariously
> > "enjoying the battle" from behind a keyboard in a small town far
> > removed from the loci of the crisis. The limitless self-delusion of
> > the well-intentioned... 

I am often amazed at the intensely personal hatefulness 
of many posts on this list (and others). One is of course
familiar with the *phenomenon* itself, which has been with us 
since the dawn of email gave us the transitive verb 'to flame', 
but I don't get the inner psychology of it: how folks can be 
so enraged by observations other folks make, and how they 
can be so deficient in self-regard as to let it *show*. 

Volto sciolto, pensieri stretti, comrades. 

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Michael J. Smith
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When one does a foolish thing, it is right to 
do it handsomely.