[lit-ideas] Re: Panic Attack Rant
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:48:30 -0400
Whatever. The only thing you understand is war, then have your war. It's
worked so well for millennia, why stop now? And don't forget to torture
them first. And upgrade from 3.5 million pounds of conventional bombs to
nuclear offensive attacks. See the resolution that brings. At the very
least it will warm your heart to think how many more people will starve
before you bomb them and they bomb you in return. You're a fool, Eric,
deserving of what you get. Unfortunately your attitude will take out a lot
people who don't deserve it.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/15/2006 1:37:10 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Panic Attack Rant
>
> Andy: Embracing and nurturing the inner child is how to
> quiet him/her.
>
> Eric: Robert Benchley suggested stunning it with a soft
> padded mallet.
>
>
> Andy: That's why honor is so self and other defeating,
> because instead of focusing on what one wants, needs, feels
> and how to improve one's life, one focuses on the perceived
> slight and forgets the self, even to being willing to kill
> the self to cure the insult.
>
> Eric: Focusing on what one wants, needs, feels and how to
> improve one's life--what a symptom of our time!
>
> The narcissistic and isolated individual, abandoning
> community and social responsibility to concentrate on the
> warm, squirming baby self. What an unbalanced equation!
>
> Humans are simultaneously individuals and parts of groups.
> There is no private side without a social side. There is no
> "improving one's life" in a narcissistic vacuum. It was
> precisely the turn inward--abandoning the social side of
> self--that turned the Civil Rights movement into a bunch of
> whining, selfish drugged-out hippies who were easily
> corralled by corporate propaganda into the '80s and '90s
> Yuppies.
>
> And it is this same nihilistic and selfish contingent who
> kvetch at anything that interferes with their "wants and
> needs." Wants and needs are infinite, the human self
> perpetually unfinished, and the abandonment of civic virtues
> merely makes the nihilists slaves of their latest buzz.
>
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