[Peace-discuss] WaPo: Liberals, Dems, Women Abandon Afghan War

[John W.]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:40 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:

"Animus" was Jung's term for the masculine component of a female
> personality: e.g., "The dominating animus peeping through the
> light-heartedness of the young
> girl..."
>
> "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there" -- one of
> the great pieces of nonsense in contemporary literature.  The beginning of
> wisdom is to reject what the late historian E. P. Thompson called "the
> enormous condescension of posterity."  --CGE


Is this your ever-so-erudite way of saying that we SHOULD study history in
order to learn from it, Carl?  I hope so.  There are too many implicit
double negatives in there for me to make much sense of it.

John




> PS--We're all getting rich from those peace-discuss subscriptions.
>
>
> John W. wrote:


>  Oh, don't you just love animus?  Animus sells mailing list subscriptions!
>> Especially Peace Discuss subscriptions!  :-) ...
>>
>
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