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Posted by: Angus Cunningham 11/20/2009, 08:56:53 (About author)
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DWA: ""If you can't say something nice about somebody, then don't say anything at all." ---Is not a full prescription for progress and trouble-free unalloyed pure joy. It is a prescription for "getting along" at SOME level, as possibly a lot of nice, sane people in late 1930s Germany may have felt." Since this gem by DWA was "signed" by "DWAardvark, partaker of doses of negative thinking and not *entirely* sorry about it all.", I found it especially redolent with potential for (amusing/penetrating?) interpretation. One interpretation is that DWA has now, courtesy of Crossbowman's recent elaboration of the utility of knowing, and even announcing, that one has anger when one does have anger -- an absolute no-no from the point of view of political orthodoxy, begun to approach a revealable clarity concerning self-management and emotions. I must, I believe, decline to draw from this hypothesis any actionable clarity that would conclude with any practical specificity lest I should deprive the aardvarkian partriarch of the fun of self-discovery. At the same time, would I not be remiss if I lost this opportunity for a link to the intriguing post-9/11 dilemma in which Mullah Omar found himself obliged to choose loyalty and traditional custom over a policy then needing some further mulling but which nevertheless would have had more chance of saving the lives of his fellow Afghanis than leaving a crucial meeting with an implicit invitation to (the bush league's) United States to bomb his country? |
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