[lit-ideas] Re: Alternatives to one-upmanship
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:08:03 -0400
Well, given that all I ever get is attacked, it's not always cost effective
in terms of effort. Berman was quoting Gore Vidal. The book he, Berman,
was discussing was his, Berman's, book Dark Ages America. It's in that
blog link I sent, some of what he said, which I assume you didn't read.
He, Berman, sounds fascinating. I completely agree with him. His thoughts
on socialism arising out of the noblesse oblige of feudalism, and our
springing full blown into a bourgeois state, skipping the feudalism, then
taking individualism to the extreme, which is to say, warping it, as the
among the roots of our problem is so on target.
> [Original Message]
> From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/13/2006 4:31:52 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Alternatives to one-upmanship
>
> At 03:17 PM 8/13/2006, you wrote:
> >Gore Vidal apparently said that the U.S. has one party with two right
> >wings. Quoting Morris Berman, _The Twilight of American Culture_ and its
> >sequel, _Dark Ages America: Final Phase of Empire_. It isn't the
Islamists
> >who brought on the Dark Ages in this country. He doesn't even mention
> >them.
>
> Maybe, when you are quoting, you can put some quotation marks around
> whatever it is you are quoting, so we can figure it out. Also, was it
> Gore Vidal who quotes? Or are you quoting Morris Berman? and which
> one of the books are you or Gore or Morris quoting from?
>
> > > Correction: he does talk about OBL, but only in the context that OBL
can
> > > see what Americans refuse to see.
>
> Who is "he"? Vidal or Berman? OR someone else ?
>
> > We have collective denial in this country. We are the authors of
> > our problems, and looking at Islamists and
> > > meddling in the world is a distraction of the sinking that we've been
> >doing > for a very long time. Fascinating book, should be
> >mandatory reading for
> > > everyone, but of course nobody will read it.
>
> Which "book" are you talking about?
>
> Really, it's posts like these that make me think you have something
> to say but no idea how to say it.
>
> paul
>
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> Paul Stone
> pas@xxxxxxxx
> Leamington, ON. Canada
>
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