Like that wonderful scene in Erik the Viking as the king leads a chorus while Hi-Brazil sinks.
>Excepting careerism, familyism, etc. > >All the basic elements of good ol' American dipshittery are nothing but >unacknowledged "isms," including the knee-jerk reliance on politicians to >decide what changes society needs and how fast it is needed. > >Environmentalists are treated as idealogues and "true believers" for citing >scientific evidence, but those who assume and believe that everything's just >dandy with the environment are the "normal" and "pragmatic" folks... It was >evident in the painfully long and utterly stupid non-discussion over global >warming that took place in this country. Some of these "normal" and >"pragmatic" idiots will still be denying that global warming and polar >melting is real even as they're taking submarines to their Wall Street >offices. > >ML > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yoshie >Furuhashi >Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:48 PM >To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU >Subject: Re: [PEN-L] feminism > >On 10/14/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> what is feminism? I had lunch with one of my female colleagues >> yesterday. Interestingly, she used the word "feminism" in a negative >> way in the same conversation as she expressed a lot of "feminist" >> attitudes. > >Lots of American women are like that. > >Americans, male or female, just don't like the idea of subscribing to >any "ism" all that much, even when their ideas objectively conform to >this or that "ism." The idea of "ism," which suggests a system upheld >by a group of people, goes against the dominant American perception of >self. >-- >Yoshie ><http://montages.blogspot.com/> ><http://mrzine.org> ><http://monthlyreview.org/> > >
