Whither Liberalism?

[luka]

That's a very one-sided quote ofc, I've found unhappy people to be very compassionate

Chief of all myself

Your a cunt

 

[Corpsey]

Sometimes people bond over their misery, like being stuck in a shit job or spending hours in a hospital waiting room

i imagine chekhov is offering a corrective to the sentimental view of the kindliness of the afflicted

it's true that at least half the time the unhappy will be filled with rage, especially towards bankside poets

 

[luka]

Im guna cut your nads off with white hot cheese wire Jack

 

[luka]

Lamest thread title ever?

 

[version]

Lamest thread title ever?

Because of the phrasing or the reference?

 

[luka]

What refwrence

 

[version]

What refwrence

Dumbass.

 

[luka]

Spunds lame who says 'wither'

 

[luka]

Version goes round Rochester saying 'wither' 'wither the frozen aunt bessies roasties shop attendent?'

 

[version]

Spunds lame who says 'wither'

There was a conference held in the early 90s called "Whither Marxism?" debating whether Marxism still had anything left in the tank. It's where Derrida delivered the lectures which became Specters of Marx.

 

[version]

Perhaps it's ideological blindness due to having grown up completely immersed in it, but liberalism seems like it takes less effort to maintain than other ideologies. There's a certain amount of policing in any system, but I get the sense letting people sort of do what they want isn't as much of a tightrope as trying to maintain a totalitarian system.

Once things start to get difficult, mind you, the mask comes off.

 

[version]

What refwrence

Craner would have gotten it.

 

[Mr. Tea]

There was that book about the difference between liberals and conservatives and how it all centres in disgust. They've done experiments with liberal and conservative mice that found that the conservatives felt sick at the sight of a discarded crisp wrapper while the liberal mice would happily roll around in their own shit.

So the difference isn't down to eekonimics at all?

 

[Corpsey]

squeakonomics surely

 

[Mr. Tea]

squeakonomics surely

Well either, really.

 

[Corpsey]

Sorry I don't mean to be (smallfurry)-pet-ty

 

[version]

 

[hmg]

conservatives devote the majority of their empathy and care to family and friends and liberals devote most of their concern to plants, trees, and inert entities such as rocks.

 

[luka]

'Wither'

 

[version]

Luka's rattled.