Y'all: isn't the word "hypocrisy"?
jes wonderin'
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Mark:
> >I'm not claiming that the US is uniquely awful,
> >but we are, as the only superpower, uniquely visible. And our brand of
> >national hypocricy, that we are in all things a light unto the nations,
> >while not being unique, is pretty unusual. And it's a hypocricy aimed
> >inwards--most Americans live within a myth about their lives that disarms
> >them from demanding change and devalues their actual lives.
>
> Brilliant Mark, however you continue with:
>
> >And the favorite poem project supports that bit of hypocricy.
>
> But what could possibly not support that bit of hypocricy Mark? I know what
> you are saying and politically I'm with you but i always get suspicious when
> individual happenings are singled out giving the baggage they carry a weight
> - by which I mean a guilt - out of proportion to their size. I realise that I
> did this myself recently on another thread, but then, if there is one person
> I am really suspicous of then it is myself.
>
> All best
> Tim A.
>
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