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Jan 13, 2007 07:34

Mannnn, I loves me some

Barbara Ehrenreich

I also love Harper's magazine, which you should just go ahead and subscribe to if you don't get it:  http//www.harpers.org.  She is the one who wrote Nickeled and Dimed:  On (Not) Getting by in America and Bait and Switch:  The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.  She has a new one out called Dancing in ( Read more... )

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scribbleomania January 13 2007, 14:00:28 UTC
I loved Nickled and Dimed. It was my roommate's book and ironically, she kept making notes in the margins like "too whiny."

That's such an interesting concept and really...true. I'm going to have to think about that a while. And read Camus.

Have a good time in Montana, whenever you go. :)

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left_fielder January 13 2007, 17:20:14 UTC
Nickled and Dimed "Too whiny"? Fuck me sideways...your roommate needs to put on the road out in the middle of nowhere in shabby clothes without a thing in the pockets nor a friend in the world. Then would come a revelation or two about "too whiny", I think.

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scribbleomania January 13 2007, 20:56:46 UTC
Tell me about it. ...actually that's kind of appealing. She was something of a rich spoiled kid who didn't think she was.

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left_fielder January 13 2007, 17:15:26 UTC
This attitude of "no hope" is a useful counterbalance to a real evil, that mindset that condemns and ignores any but the chirpingly psuedoperfect. For me the truth is somewhere in the middle, has to be. One should be positive and proactive, caring and flexible and empathetic, and resigned to the fact of the inveitable decay, complete dissolution, of oneself and of everyone and everything that one loves.

You seem a good bit better. Keep moving ahead.

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fountaingirl January 13 2007, 17:34:35 UTC
Nice post, thanks for calling my attention to this essay!

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