Reply #163: I'm not one of them, however [View All]

[Mairead]

And I'm far from 'resigned', though I suppose I have to accept that I qualify as 'older' (on the outside, anyway). Nor am I really an academic.

I think the people who qualify as 'resigned' (and perhaps as older, too, on the inside) are those who claim that we're already cooked, that it's already over, and that all we can do is submit and stumble catatonically into line because resistance is futile. Of course, that could be faux resignation instead, a crafty ploy by people who really don't want change; people who are happy with the Bushian/DLC status quo. Difficult.