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Thursday, July 17, 2008
The GOP 'Virtue Analysis' Strategy Syllogism
If people do repetitive, routine work; and
If they fret and anger over such work, not finding relief enough in pay alone; and
If they see their life, effectively, a function of their work, their function in the economic scheme of things; and
If they psychologically justify that otherwise thankless work as their being needed, as their existential singularity of purpose; and
If they reify that justification into the status of personal virtue;
Then
a) Other people, those without work, must be absent that virtue; and
b) Any system economically supporting those virtueless others must be wrong;
c) No one can make a 'rational' choice in favor of such a system; and
d) Any such choice is politically wrong
Labels:
culture,
existentialist,
politics
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