Re: Re: Current implications for South Africa

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> > <http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue31/cont31.htm>
>
> I have yet to browse through the entire issue, but are you pointing
> to the following?

Yes, sorry, wrong link. It should have been
<http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue31/lemisc31.htm>.

Lemisch wrote in an earlier NP piece
<http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue29/lemisc29.htm>:

> At Foundry on April 14, Nader spoke out, rightly, for vaccination,
> but attacked Viagra and Prozac, apparently seen as only life-style
> frivolities. From the audience, Joanne Landy (a Nader supporter)
> cried out -- as is her custom in such situations, particularly in
> large domed spaces -- "Whatsamatta with Viagra!!?" The gentle sound
> wafted toward the dome of the beautiful church; two days later, at
> the Ellipse, Nader delivered the same speech, but without the
> offending passages. But they are likely to come back. There is, with
> Nader, a strong ascetic streak which is very much in the American
> grain, but also very much out of touch with the cultural revolution
> wrought by the sixties. Even Oprah knows better than Ralph Nader.
> (As Landy points out, half seriously, a Nader presidency could leave
> us depressed, in our mud huts, suffering from erectile dysfunction
> -- and possibly without any tv to watch.)

There's a way in which a certain kind of environmentalism seems like
depressive misanthropy made into a political program.

Doug