What a great quote!

Below I am quoting (from Hemmingson's "Here Come the Navel Gazers") a quote (from Poulos 2008), one that strikes me as profound for us out there ethnography-ing, as well as a deeply accurate assessment of "liberal" bashing in the U.S. at the moment by idiots like Limbaugh and Coulter:

...the 'self-indulgent navel-gazing' charge is a straw man argument, combined with a simple ad hominem attack. It is usually intended to belittle and bully. As such, it may carry emotional weight, but it has no merit. It is a bit like the U.S. conservatives of the Rush Limbaugh/Anne Coulter stripe who throw the word 'liberal' around as though it were unequivocally and naturally a pejorative term. Of course, as I glance back at my 50 years on this planet, I can honestly say that I have met very few 'self-indulgent navel-gazers' (most people, in my experience are, in fact, less than satisfied with their navels), and most of them were people who either smoked too much highoctane weed or who suffered from narcissistic personality disorder. The prognosis was not good, and none of them were writers. If, by this charge, the critics mean that introspection or reflection are bad per se, I have nothing to say other than 'Try it sometime.' But I think what most of them are saying is that we should not 'indulge' our emotional lives because emotions can lead us astray. Indeed, they can. On the other hand, most of the great literature, art, music, writing, poetry, etc. in the history of humanity has tapped into the great and deep energy of pathos to move the human soul to new highs and lows.