There's also the assumption that intellectual pursuits cannot be an end in itself, from which I deduce our friend is an American.
I attributed our new friend from Couderport's, Pa. confusion to cultural differences: note that they call this a blog and not a journal, which could mean they are unfamiliar with the Single Neuron Syndrome [1] seen on LJ, and if they don't follow me on news, they're missing a large part of the conversation.
The cold and inhuman comment is, of course, similar to criticisms of Nortamericanos I used to hear from Brazilians of South Americans in the early 1970s and might be what you get when an excitable person raised to think passion should be the motivating force encounters someone raised in a more reserved, self-controlled and perhaps more rational society.
1: Everyone here is familiar with SNS? It's the number of neurons that fire before an urge is turned into an action.
Re: Deconstructing James
I attributed our new friend from Couderport's, Pa. confusion to cultural differences: note that they call this a blog and not a journal, which could mean they are unfamiliar with the Single Neuron Syndrome [1] seen on LJ, and if they don't follow me on news, they're missing a large part of the conversation.
The cold and inhuman comment is, of course, similar to criticisms of Nortamericanos I used to hear from Brazilians of South Americans in the early 1970s and might be what you get when an excitable person raised to think passion should be the motivating force encounters someone raised in a more reserved, self-controlled and perhaps more rational society.
1: Everyone here is familiar with SNS? It's the number of neurons that fire before an urge is turned into an action.