On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
At 10:56 AM 4/2/04 -0500, Viajero wrote:
Ed's behaviour simply confirms my suspicion
that there is an authoritarian
lurking in the soul of every rightwinger.
This is also unhelpful.
I strongly suspect that there is an authoritarian lurking somewhere in
*every* human soul, one of the unfortunate impulses we need to guard
against in ourselves.
[Response delayed from yesterday because it was too nice outside to sit
in front of my computer any longer.]
Somehow, I can't help but substitute for " an authoritarian" the words
"a four year old about to throw a tantrum" in the above sentence.
Maybe this is due to some fragment of Transactional Analysis stuck in
my memory somewhere. Maybe it's because when I get frustrated, I want to
throw a tantrum. Or maybe because I can't help but remember that one of
the items the dictator of the moment, Saddam Hussein, had in his last
hideout was a supply of sugary American junkfood.
And I expect next week someone will furnish definitive proof that Adolf
Hitler was fond of Southern Fried Chicken.[*]
Geoff
[*] Yes, I'm aware of a few things regarding Mr Hitler.