Craig,

Consider that article with its “bourgeois-phobia” thesis no different than an intellectualized version of Joe the Plumber via the medium of print. The argument is thoroughly moronic and ahistorical; but it is the typical nonsense churned out endlessly from clueless conservative American (pseudo-)intellectuals. The rest of the world has no “bourgeois-phobia” in the manner which that articles stipulates simply because the whole edifice of the Amero-Israeli bourgeois state and economy subsists in large measure on the looting and plundering of the resources of other nations. This is not envy. This is simply justified rage at blatant and inexusable theft.

Craig,

Consider that article with its “bourgeois-phobia” thesis no different than an intellectualized version of Joe the Plumber via the medium of print. The argument is thoroughly moronic and ahistorical; but it is the typical nonsense churned out endlessly from clueless conservative American (pseudo-)intellectuals. The rest of the world has no “bourgeois-phobia” in the manner which that articles stipulates simply because the whole edifice of the Amero-Israeli bourgeois state and economy subsists in large measure on the looting and plundering of the resources of other nations. This is not envy. This is simply justified rage at blatant and inexusable theft.

Wahid wrote:

No wonder the rest of the world thinks of Americans as dangerous retards![/quote]

Wahid,

As an American, I must say that with “Joe the Plumber” you really DO have a point. The man is an utter moron. An absolutely clueless human being. Not even the Ruhi Full Sequence of Courses taken over and over with strobe lights whirling in a sleep deprived North Korean Communist Party hypnotic induced haze could save him from his own mentality. His mind and how it works is indeed a cosmic mystery.

Wahid wrote:

No wonder the rest of the world thinks of Americans as dangerous retards![/quote]

Wahid,

As an American, I must say that with “Joe the Plumber” you really DO have a point. The man is an utter moron. An absolutely clueless human being. Not even the Ruhi Full Sequence of Courses taken over and over with strobe lights whirling in a sleep deprived North Korean Communist Party hypnotic induced haze could save him from his own mentality. His mind and how it works is indeed a cosmic mystery.

And the answer to that typpically myopic rightwing American propagandistic drivel and bassakwards analysis posted by Eric Pierce is,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/13/joe-plumber-war-correspondent-israel-gaza

Joe the Plumber berates Israeli press for not being patriotic enough

Fledgling war correspondent Samuel Wurzelbacher visits Israel’s frontline city of Sderot but says he can’t think of the right question

Joe the Plumber – aka Samuel Wurzelbacher, made famous by challenging Barack Obama’s tax plans – has begun his new job as a reporter covering the Gaza war by berating the Israeli press for not being patriotic enough.

The fledgling war correspondent for Pajamas Media website spent his first day on the job in the frontline Israeli city of Sderot, which has borne the brunt of Hamas rocket attacks. He said he had rarely seen such suffering.

“The people of Sderot can’t do normal things day to day, like get soap in their eyes in the shower, for fear a rocket might come in,” he said. “I’m sure they’re taking quick showers. I know I would.”

Wurzelbacher said he thought foreign criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza was misplaced.

“When someone hits me, I’m going to unload on the boy. And if the rest of the world doesn’t understand that, then I’m sorry,” he said.

And then he rounded on the Israeli reporters whose newspapers have been criticised by some as no better than cheerleaders for the war. Wurzelbacher thought they hadn’t been supportive enough.

“It makes me sick to see the way you behave. You guys need to be protective of your homes, your children, your family,” he said.

Having answered a few questions himself, Joe the Plumber was suddenly called on to get back to being a reporter.

“I have thousands of questions but I can’t think of the right one,” he said.

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No wonder the rest of the world thinks of Americans as dangerous retards!

And the answer to that typpically myopic rightwing American propagandistic drivel and bassakwards analysis posted by Eric Pierce is,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/13/joe-plumber-war-correspondent-israel-gaza

Joe the Plumber berates Israeli press for not being patriotic enough

Fledgling war correspondent Samuel Wurzelbacher visits Israel’s frontline city of Sderot but says he can’t think of the right question

Joe the Plumber – aka Samuel Wurzelbacher, made famous by challenging Barack Obama’s tax plans – has begun his new job as a reporter covering the Gaza war by berating the Israeli press for not being patriotic enough.

The fledgling war correspondent for Pajamas Media website spent his first day on the job in the frontline Israeli city of Sderot, which has borne the brunt of Hamas rocket attacks. He said he had rarely seen such suffering.

“The people of Sderot can’t do normal things day to day, like get soap in their eyes in the shower, for fear a rocket might come in,” he said. “I’m sure they’re taking quick showers. I know I would.”

Wurzelbacher said he thought foreign criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza was misplaced.

“When someone hits me, I’m going to unload on the boy. And if the rest of the world doesn’t understand that, then I’m sorry,” he said.

And then he rounded on the Israeli reporters whose newspapers have been criticised by some as no better than cheerleaders for the war. Wurzelbacher thought they hadn’t been supportive enough.

“It makes me sick to see the way you behave. You guys need to be protective of your homes, your children, your family,” he said.

Having answered a few questions himself, Joe the Plumber was suddenly called on to get back to being a reporter.

“I have thousands of questions but I can’t think of the right one,” he said.

–

No wonder the rest of the world thinks of Americans as dangerous retards!

http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/001/102gwtnf.asp

AROUND 1830, a group of French artists and intellectuals looked around and noticed that people who were their spiritual inferiors were running the world. Suddenly a large crowd of merchants, managers, and traders were making lots of money, living in the big houses, and holding the key posts. They had none of the high style of the aristocracy, or even the earthy integrity of the peasants. Instead, they were gross. They were vulgar materialists, shallow conformists, and self-absorbed philistines, who half the time failed even to acknowledge their moral and spiritual inferiority to the artists and intellectuals. What’s more, it was their very mediocrity that accounted for their success. Through some screw-up in the great scheme of the universe, their narrow-minded greed had brought them vast wealth, unstoppable power, and growing social prestige.

Naturally, the artists and intellectuals were outraged. Hatred of the bourgeoisie became the official emotion of the French intelligentsia. Stendhal said traders and merchants made him want to “weep and vomit at the same time.” Flaubert thought they were “plodding and avaricious.” Hatred of the bourgeoisie, he wrote, “is the beginning of all virtue.” He signed his letters “Bourgeoisophobus” to show how much he despised “stupid grocers and their ilk.”

Of all the great creeds of the 19th century, pretty much the only one still thriving is this one, bourgeoisophobia. Marxism is dead. Freudianism is dead. Social Darwinism is dead, along with all those theories about racial purity that grew up around it. But the emotions and reactions that Flaubert,
Stendhal, and all the others articulated in the 1830s are still with us, bigger than ever. In fact, bourgeoisophobia, which has flowered variously and spread to places as diverse as Baghdad, Ramallah, and Beijing, is the major reactionary creed of our age.

This is because today, in much of the world’s eyes, two peoples–the Americans and the Jews–have emerged as the great exemplars of undeserved success. Americans and Israelis, in this view, are the money-mad molochs of the earth, the vulgarizers of morals, corrupters of culture, and proselytizers of idolatrous values. These two nations, it is said, practice conquest capitalism, overrunning poorer nations and exploiting weaker neighbors in their endless desire for more and more. These two peoples, the Americans and the Jews, in the view of the bourgeoisophobes, thrive precisely because they are spiritually stunted. It is their obliviousness to the holy things in life, their feverish energy, their injustice, their shallow pursuit of power and gain, that allow them to build fortunes, construct weapons, and play the role of hyperpower.

And so just as the French intellectuals of the 1830s rose up to despise the traders and bankers, certain people today rise up to shock, humiliate, and dream of destroying America and Israel. Today’s bourgeoisophobes burn with the same sense of unjust inferiority. They experience the same humiliation because there is nothing they can do to thwart the growing might of their enemies. They rage and rage. Only today’s bourgeoisophobes are not just artists and intellectuals. They are as likely to be terrorists and suicide bombers. They teach in madrassas, where they are careful not to instruct their students in the sort of practical knowledge that dominates bourgeois schools. They are Muslim clerics who incite hatred and violence. They are erudite Europeans who burn with humiliation because they know, deep down, that both America and Israel possess a vitality and heroism that their nations once had but no longer do.
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