James, While it is true that I do one day hope to find myself sucking on Lloyd's titties in an effort to secure for myself some delicious DeMausian milk, I know for certain that I cannot have, as you suggest, a cult-like interest in DeMause and his work. It's impossible. I
know because I've been a life-long user of apple products, and no one who uses macs regularly can be anything but a buoyantly happy and healthy human being.
Let me relate a story. A couple months ago I had a party where a whole bunch of us were sitting in a circle talking this and that. Someone asked me about my interest in psychohistory, and, after
explaining why I don't actually like the term, and after emphatically DIScouraging them from studying history and emphatically ENcouraging them to read books by people who are alive now, I explained the idea of psychoclasses and suggested that one would probably find that those people who are of the helping (advanced) psychoclass used macintosh computers, while those who were of the socializing class (or worse) used windows machines. My friend
suddenly grabbed everyone's attention, and asked everyone to indicate the kind of computer they used -- Mac or PC. Turned out that all the people who used Mac were seated on one side, and all the
others, on the other. What had happened, of course, is that without knowing it, members of the same psychoclass had sought each other out. It was like Loyalist vs. Patriot, all over again (Mac users being the Patriots, and PC users being the dumpy Loyalists,
of course.)
But while I don't want to dump on my PC using friends, it is true that most of them wear more drab clothing, are more inclined to smoke, and are more likely to be personality-challenged than my mac using friends. If you go into an Apple store, you'll get a good sense of what we're like. We tend to wear bright, extravagant, "fun," clothing. We tend to smile a lot, and hang out with other people who wear bright clothing and smile a lot. We're always the life of the party -- even when we're trying not to be. We like taking pictures of one another smiling, and delight in sending these pictures of our smiling selves to one other. One might make the mistake of thinking we're narcissistic -- like the barbaric greeks were, according to our darling DeMause -- but really we just like being in one another's sunshine -- it's such a great way to live!
You know if I was to have a party where I invited only my mac using friends, I'd might think to invite over that James Dale Davidson of yours. You know, he's no Paul Krugman, and he does seem to enjoy the
idea of being a survivor amidst financial societal ruin -- which isn't the best of fantasies -- a little too much, but he is fun and adventurous, and I bet some more time amongst those healthier than himself might bring him a little further toward the sunnier side.
Oh! -- that's another thing we mac people like to do!!!: We mac people enjoy helping others!!!
Makes us smile : ) in fact.
maccultenthusiastsincebirth,
psycholiteraturely,
patrickmh
Link: RealPsychohistory
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