- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
Klytus, I'm very glad you're out there. I often come to the letters section of Joan's blogs just to see what you're up to. Your posts have made me laugh or smile often over the last year. I appreciate your wit and poetry, especially since you almost always find a way to express a sensitive insight. And, I have to add, I'm always glad when Joan notices when your comments are missing.
Just a few minutes ago I copied the paragraph below, by Tim Wise, from a Recommended Diary on DailyKos. I think Wise expresses what I sometimes fear about liberal bloggers and posters: we take life politics so seriously we can forget to laugh and enjoy ourselves. I appreciate how you, Klytus, and you, Joan, keep things in balance!
The humorlessness of the far left -- to which I remain connected ideologically if not organizationally -- has always struck me as one of its greatest weaknesses. People like to laugh, they like to smile, they like to be joyful, and an awful lot of hardened leftists seem almost utterly incapable of doing any of these things. It's as if they have all taken a pledge that there should be no laughter until the revolution, or some such shit. No positivity, no hope, no happiness so long as people are still poor and exploited and being murdered by cops, and victimized by United States militarism, or performing as wage slaves for global capital, or eating meat, or driving cars. And they wonder why the left is so weak? --Tim Wise
