[lit-ideas] Re: Where politics hits the grass
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 11:02:38 -0600
I can never hear those three words w/out thinking of Grease....
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tell us more...
>
>
> --- On *Fri, 11/7/08, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
>
> From: Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Where politics hits the grass
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 4:52 PM
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> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Exactly. Don't attack the message. Attack the messenger. Thanks for
> the
> > illustration Paul.
>
> The world "SUCKS" as you say, because of people who do nothing.
> People
> who sit around the kitchen table in their privelidged world and think
> themselves incapable of affecting change. I'm attacking the messenger
> because your message is meaningless and hyperbolized in almost every
> way and that is because of the way it is constantly, repeatedly,
> constantly, repeatedly thrown at us like we don't already know. In
> some sense, you're preaching to the somewhat agreeable choir, but the
> message has been received, loud and clear -- and it has become
> over-wrought, bitching. It's almost like Julie says, "you WANT the
> mushroom cloud" to come so that you can say -- "see I told you
> so".
>
> I for one hope you're wrong. I hope you never get to tell me you told
> me so. And, I'm kind of optimistic that you won't. So, in the parlance
> of our future rulers, STFU! Your message is clear, your deliberately
> combatative, absurdist, nihilism is trolling.
>
> p
>
> p.s. Judy and David can argue whether there are too many commas in
> that last sentence.
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Julie Krueger
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