[lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:19:27 -0500
Just to be certain there's no misunderstanding here--Ursula
correctly (and more clearly) described what I was trying to point
out. It was not a comment about Ursula. It was a comment about
people shouting "I told you so!" in a graveyard.
Ursula: But you're right that there is an unsavory sort of glee
every time the news gets worse. An odd bit of human nature that.
Can our hatred of George Bush really be more important to us
than the toll of suffering that's accompanying his failure? Are
we so happy to be right that we're secretly glad when our worst
fears come true? It's only when the reality of suffering behind
that 'worse' news comes flooding in, that we paper it over with
anger. Perhaps dissembling is what separates us from the (other)
animals.
Eric: It's exactly that weird sort of sado-masochistic
schadenfreude that I was trying to point out.
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