Doug Henwood wrote:
> Oh it might. I think people are semi-conscious that advertising does
> strange things to their desires, and feel vaguely guilty or defensive
> about being consumed by shopping. Witness the whole discourse of
> "addication" around consumption ("shopaholic").
Now, now. You
Carrol Cox wrote:
>Those who suffer from hallucinations generally know that the hallucination
>is one even when they cannot resist having it. Friends who suffer from
>"voices" speak fairly casually of attempts to ignore them. They never
>believe that the "voices" are "out there." I asked one woma
Title: Re: [PEN-L:20114] Re: Re: Re: Re: As the fetish implodes
Greetings Economists,
In response to my comments on anti-disabled thinking in Tom Walkers recent posting Brad DeLong writes,
Brad DeLong,
Do you think it's fun to have an obsessive-compulsive disorder, or to
have
>
>Doyle
>Needless suffering is key to your excluding a person with a
>disability from your concept of able bodied participation in the
>social whole. Every worker needlessly suffers, but disabled people
>are the ones that need to change. Your comment is almost Victorian
>in patronizing tone
Title: Re: [PEN-L:20109] Re: Re: As the fetish implodes
Greetings Economists,
Rob Schaap writes,
I just don't get this stuff, Doyle. To say obsessive-compulsive disorders are bad is not to say that people stricken with it are bad. If I call brand-marketing a cancer in society, I'm hardly c
