tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post6156128857676797541..comments2022-03-30T01:21:56.188-04:00Comments on The Journals of Ian Thal: Moral Inversion and Party InvitationsIan Thalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-34607731259795878822010-09-14T12:43:13.572-04:002010-09-14T12:43:13.572-04:00I enjoy your blog immensely. This posting in part...I enjoy your blog immensely. This posting in particular was hilarious.<br /><br />And a bit scary as well.Robert Platt Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03824462709395057017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-73016099248144706462010-09-09T22:11:43.071-04:002010-09-09T22:11:43.071-04:00Hi Victoria!
The problem is that the friend who g...Hi Victoria!<br /><br />The problem is that the friend who gets his rides from Rolde is an enabler. Sometimes (not those times I am describing however) actually carrying signs for and otherwise ceding leadership to Rolde. Indeed, if you follow the links to my earlier encounters, you'll note that for several years, the Massachusetts Green Party was content to let Rolde serve as a member of Ian Thalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-72151339870393423622010-09-09T20:24:14.294-04:002010-09-09T20:24:14.294-04:00I agree with Ian about the man's psychiatric s...I agree with Ian about the man's psychiatric status. He sounds pretty unstable. I think that inviting him into your reading was a great way to diffuse the situation. Perhaps if his friend whom he "drives places" could encourage him to obtain some psychiatric care (in the nicest of ways), it would ultimately reduce some of his anger so that he could engage in a rational and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-19441440668320392042010-09-09T11:02:18.046-04:002010-09-09T11:02:18.046-04:00It happens that my views regarding totalitarianism...It happens that my views regarding totalitarianism, and the use of violence happens to be informed by history as well as an an academic grounding in political and social philosophy. As a consequence, it's very hard for me to reconcile the nostalgia for the socialist aesthetic with the reality of tens of millions of political murders, or the thrill of "revolution" with the often Ian Thalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-32688603221188327092010-09-09T09:35:32.767-04:002010-09-09T09:35:32.767-04:00I think we're probably in agreement, although ...I think we're probably in agreement, although you probably tack closer to the center than I do (I tend in sympathies towards the Scandinavian form of social democracy, preferably minus the ugly nationalism), at least judging by your rhetoric. Each of those terms you use is essentially a right wing (and occasionally New Dem) term of art that's used to villify people who, for example, isaac butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07815094790605298884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-4912727014225963292010-09-08T14:01:29.636-04:002010-09-08T14:01:29.636-04:00I don't run in the sorts of social circles whe...I don't run in the sorts of social circles where I meet that many people right-of-center. So my interlocutors, whether I agree or disagree with them, range from centrists to liberals to leftist.<br /><br />For the record, Isaac, I was opposed to the Iraq War primarily because of the false <i>causae belli</i> offered by the Bush and Blair governments, the attempt to seize control of the IraqiIan Thalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-15587359735047136922010-09-08T12:12:42.578-04:002010-09-08T12:12:42.578-04:00yikes, what a racist douchebag.
I find that I hav...yikes, what a racist douchebag.<br /><br />I find that I have certain lines that I tend to work out in my head during parties about when i will or won't behave myself. For example: Anne and I were going to a friend of her family's house for dinner who we know is ultra-conservative. I said, basically, "I'll behave myself, but if the Cordoba Center comes up, things might get isaac butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07815094790605298884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-16711710910416567802010-09-06T00:23:10.780-04:002010-09-06T00:23:10.780-04:00"Sometimes he drives me places".
Says i..."Sometimes he drives me places".<br /><br />Says it all really.Rachynoreply@blogger.com