The Invisible Counterpoint

What follows will likely prove a PR slaughter. My guess is that Harper will easily manage to depict the more left-leaning coalition as presumptive (and therefore un-Canadian), not owing to PR cleverness -- better produced You Tube videos and the like -- but because Cdns are getting in the mood to blame all our troubles on those who embody a more positive sense of human/societal potential (i.e., liberals, with their preference for an open and tolerant society). Tyee readers will of course see Harper's presumption, but for the most part they're not in the same head-space as the rest who populate Canada. The Canadian Tire/Tim Horton Canadians, that is, those who prefer to imagine themselves as non-descript and monotone, see in progressives an Apple-like inclination toward a colorful, rich, beautiful life, and it makes them furious (I wasn't allowed to be like that! You're not allowed to be like that!). Again, if I'm wrong -- good. It means, so to speak, that were...

quarry bay: If Harper destroys everything of value, then he is doing exactly what the populace who voted for him, wants. Accumulated wealth makes people who received insufficient love from, who were treated sadistically by, their parents (with the nature of their relationship to the mother being of primary importance), feel extremely anxious: the reason for this is that unloved parents (mothers) need their children to give them the love they themselves did not receive from their own parents (mothers), and communicate in unforgettable ways to their children (through threats of violence, abandonment) that they are being very very bad children when they turn from their parents and start focusing on their own particular needs and wants (which begins to happen in a big way with adolescence, which is why there is often so much strain in child/parent relationships during this period). Accumulated societal wealth, for a society with a large number of insufficiently unloved constituents, ma...