Re: [Pen-l] that R word.

[Sandwichman <lumpoflabor@xxxxxxxxx>]

I should clarify: the "wishful thinking" I have in mind is about the
rebel being welcomed back into the fold rather than about the imagined
course of the economy.

On 3/2/08, Sandwichman <lumpoflabor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm thinking it's something deeper than mere wishful thinking,
>  although it certainly incorporates wishful thinking into that depth. I
>  suspect it's more like a rhetorical 'concession to the consensus' that
>  seeks to qualify his short-term deviance with a conciliatory
>  longer-term view of convergence -- even though that convergence may be
>  based on wishful thinking rather than on data. Perhaps all 'bourgeois
>  stupidity' is based on just such a reflex.
>
>
>
>  On 3/2/08, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > > >  Happily, Mr. Biderman does not expect the recession to last much
>  >  > >  longer than the end of 2008. "I see this thing lasting longer than the
>  >  > >  bulls think but not as deep as the bears expect," he said. "People
>  >  > >  will start feeling better late this year."
>  >
>  >
>  > Sandwichman wrote:
>  >  > And ("happily") his long term prognosis is based on... ?
>  >
>  >
>  > wishful thinking, methinks.
>  >
>  >
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