Comments on: Three Weeks in Southern Utah: 5: Moab http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2009/12/04/three-weeks-in-southern-utah-5-moab/ An Economist's Travelogue Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:49:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: mike http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2009/12/04/three-weeks-in-southern-utah-5-moab/comment-page-1/#comment-275 mike Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:58:33 +0000 http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/?p=277#comment-275 Dear mjosef, Thankf for your kind words. We do have to try to be honest about the system in which we live. Delusion is unfortunately pretty common. michael yates Dear mjosef,

Thankf for your kind words. We do have to try to be honest about the system in which we live. Delusion is unfortunately pretty common.

michael yates

]]> By: mjosef http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2009/12/04/three-weeks-in-southern-utah-5-moab/comment-page-1/#comment-274 mjosef Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:55:42 +0000 http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/?p=277#comment-274 That first paragraph is crackerjack - why can't people be more honest like that? Where is our collective sense of exasperation? Instead, we get endless "hope" messages from the putative left, proposals for climate change this, health care that, war "exit plans" this, direct action that - do these faith-based seekers ever issue mea culpas for their earnest delusions? If the left is to have sort of viability as we descend further into Orwellian dystopia, it must become acute and precise about its futility. The Boulder you describe is the Boulder where most all of us live, trying to keep our individual lives going with laughter and improvement while social reality blasts new fissures into the rock. That first paragraph is crackerjack – why can’t people be more honest like that?
Where is our collective sense of exasperation? Instead, we get endless “hope” messages from the putative left, proposals for climate change this, health care that, war “exit plans” this, direct action that – do these faith-based seekers ever issue mea culpas for their earnest delusions? If the left is to have sort of viability as we descend further into Orwellian dystopia, it must become acute and precise about its futility. The Boulder you describe is the Boulder where most all of us live, trying to keep our individual lives going with laughter and improvement while social reality blasts new fissures into the rock.

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