Except neocons don't like humanity whether from afar or close up. They just don't like life. All they like is corporations, which is to say, totalitarian systems. Corporations even tried privatizing rainwater in Bolivia (that's a fact as they tried to privatize water) until they were shown the door. As Lawrence might consider for a slogan, "Totalitarian Systems Unite! You have nothing to lose but your humans! And there's always plenty more where they came from... SP will light the way..." --- On Fri, 9/5/08, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [lit-ideas] A Whiter Shade of Pale...the shadow of our politics To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 8:29 AM Mike: ... Before he dies of old age whites will be a minority riding at the back of the bus. That cheered him, but he kept going on about all the corpulent white men at the convention who all looked clone-like. He's young -- well, 32 -- but that's young when it comes to tolerating your enemies. Hey, Mike, your stereotypical racial images are reinforcing one of my stereotypical prejudices, namely that dogmatic liberals love "humanity" but loathe and despise individual people. In my personal experience, the most mean-spirited, self-centered, cruel, nasty, utterly selfish people I've ever known were also dogmatic liberals. And I'm not talking about political discourse with "enemies," but with employee-employer relations, personal relations, family relations. In that arena of the purely social human, the dogmatic liberals seem to reign as lovers of the "abstract human" and haters of the individual human. Maybe all ideologies (and aesthetics too) carry their shadow side, and the "lover of humanity" spends much of her time hating the individual examples of that great love. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html