To: dennisw
A good read, minus the psychobabble that seeped in and the Jew-baiting too.
The writer seems to deny one basic truth, however: that Bad Things can have real reasons and valid motives attached. Not every rebel lacks "a cause", and not every victim is any bit delusional.
3 posted on
12/01/2005 7:56:24 PM PST by
SteveMcKing
("No empire collapses because of technical reasons. They collapse because they are unnatural.")
To: SteveMcKing
The writer seems to deny one basic truth, however: that Bad Things can have real reasons and valid motives attached. Not every rebel lacks "a cause", and not every victim is any bit delusional.Correct. But these days the default position is to romanticize them. The popular culture does this, so does our mass media
6 posted on
12/01/2005 8:03:52 PM PST by
dennisw
(You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
To: SteveMcKing
I didn't detect any "Jew-baiting." The author said, several times, that anti-Semitism is in many ways the default loser ideology, since it provides a convenient and convincing scapegoat of nearly universal currency.
9 posted on
12/01/2005 8:34:15 PM PST by
TFFKAMM
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