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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Exactly.  In our liberal way, we know it's impolite to look down on someone
because of their race, gender, place of national origin, etc., but we have no
hesitation in ignoring the thoughts of others just because they have the 
unfortunate characteristic of being dead.  We call that being modern.

John W. wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:40 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu 
> <mailto: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
> 
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> 
> 
> PS--We're all getting rich from those peace-discuss subscriptions.
> 
> 
> John W. wrote:
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> 
> Oh, don't you just love animus?  Animus sells mailing list subscriptions!
> Especially Peace Discuss subscriptions!  :-) ...
> 
> 
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