Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>><http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue31/cont31.htm>
>
>I have yet to browse through the entire issue, but are you pointing
>to the following?
Yes, sorry, wrong link. It should have been
<http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue31/lemisc31.htm>.
Lemisch wrote in an earlier NP piece
<http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue29/lemisc29.htm>:
>At Foundry on April 14, Nader spoke out, rightly, for vaccination,
>but attacked Viagra and Prozac, apparently seen as only life-style
>frivolities. From the audience, Joanne Landy (a Nader supporter)
>cried out -- as is her custom in such situations, particularly in
>large domed spaces -- "Whatsamatta with Viagra!!?" The gentle sound
>wafted toward the dome of the beautiful church; two days later, at
>the Ellipse, Nader delivered the same speech, but without the
>offending passages. But they are likely to come back. There is, with
>Nader, a strong ascetic streak which is very much in the American
>grain, but also very much out of touch with the cultural revolution
>wrought by the sixties. Even Oprah knows better than Ralph Nader.
>(As Landy points out, half seriously, a Nader presidency could leave
>us depressed, in our mud huts, suffering from erectile dysfunction
>-- and possibly without any tv to watch.)
There's a way in which a certain kind of environmentalism seems like
depressive misanthropy made into a political program.
Doug
