On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 14, 2012, at 3:01 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Now Carrol says that this man bears no responsibility for his opinions, that >> his opinions are a matter of capitalist relations. But I can't shake the >> notion that he is responsible, and his general attitude toward mankind makes >> me want to vomit. > > My wife & I have been trying to work out a nonreactionary sense of personal > responsibility. Yeah, I know how The System shapes people, but at what point > do you say that they really should do better. Like eating less crap, > believing less bullshit, and generally having more decent social attitudes. > If you say those things won't change until The System changes, then how do > you imagine changing The System if people are so bent out of shape by it? >
Well said! And developing a better understanding of personal responsibility is indeed a very worthy project. Even on PEN-L, it seems un-PC to point out that there are many seriously fucked-up attitudes prevalent even among working-class and union types and it is not all the fault of The Man. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
