[lit-ideas] Re: Aaaaaargh
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:01:22 -0400
In these New Middle Ages the notion of the unconscious and unconscious
motivation is down there with Darwinism. If, against all the evidence, you
think society celebrates life, then that's what you think. I'm just
curious, why do you think there is crime, etc. in the world? Intelligent
Design? Malignant Design? Bad choices? Not enough torture?
For Lawrence, Joerg answered regarding Westphalia better than I could have
done. Thanks, Joerg.
Regarding Scotland, they may be culinarily challenged, but they produced
David Hume, Adam Smith, and now Niall Ferguson. I think the guy's
brilliant.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/27/2006 4:20:15 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Aaaaaargh
>
> Andy: ...success is something we do to get approval from
> others (read: parents) transferred onto the world at large.
>
> That may well be the case with some people, but I think the
> world is too large and people too varied for all
> success-driven people to be pigeonholed as mommy- and
> daddy-pleasers. Some people succeed simply because they are
> doing what they love.
>
>
>
> Andy: Society doesn't celebrate life.
>
> Sure it does! All the time in ever so many ways! To say
> society only celebrates money is to make a gripe into an
> axiom. There's that tendency sure, but society is so large.
>
> This List, for example, is a celebration of life.
> Contentious but celebratory.
>
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