Re: Weed vs. Tobacco

Opus the Penguin wrote:
> 
> Peter Boulding (pjb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> > Opus the Penguin <opusthepenguin+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >>This is a use of the word "Calvinist" that I'm not familiar with.
> >>I'm trying to grok it from context and am coming up empty.
> >
> > Uh-oh: I should have guessed that might press one of your buttons.
> > It was an admittedly loose usage, intended to imply that dope is
> > both iconic of our enslavement to 'total depravity' and
> > antithetical to the Protestant work ethic and to the
> > rehabilitation of capitalism of which followers of Calvin tend to
> > be so fond.
> >
> 
> I'm familiar with that as a caricature. I just couldn't see how it
> fit in with what you were talking about until you elaborated.
> 
> Actually, if I'm counting correctly, it's sort of a caricature of a
> caricature of a caricature. In the first order, it's a caricature of
> Max Weber's thesis on Calvinists and the Protestant work ethic.
> Weber's thesis is in turn a caricature of Calvinists. And the early
> Calvinists were in their own way something of a caricature of Calvin.

If you're sure, then, OK.