labor bitchiness
Jim Straub wrote:
The labor geeks and professors are too busy talking about P9 and tdu to
ever get to it.
Someone wrote me offlist with the very interesting and pertinent
question: why are laboristas so bitchy? Why the constant assertions
of authenticity, and the constant dis’ing of (essentially
sympathetic) intellectuals? And why the intense sensitivity to
criticism? One thought my correspondent had was that when you’re
losing so big in the real world, then you lash out at easy targets -
because your real enemies are too busy ignoring you. I dunno. But
it’s an interesting question, and an interesting hypothesis for an
answer. But I’d love to hear more.
Doug