March 25, 2006:
Verbal radicalism.
R-r-r-r-r-r-r-revolution!
Carefully calibrated life. In practice it's Bernsteinian: the goal is nothing, the movement is everything. Bernstein as the platform for rhetorical radicalism. In a context where revolution is not on the agenda, it's not necessary to accept responsibility.
Oblomov.
Except that Oblomov wasn't arrogant.