Are you trying to say it wasn't real to you, then? Does it not matter to you that you then accepted it? Or did you "accept" it? In any case, it obviously helped you think of yourselves as the victims in that conversation, oppressed by the nasty overlords of this realm.
Really, Jerome, that is the language of the playground.
Of course we accepted it, solveig with tearful relief, because she was genuinely upset at the conflict, and we didn't think anything more of it. I don't think any neutral observer would say you were not aggressive on that occasion, whatever the rights and wrongs of the argument. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
A big rule in life is: one always finds a bigger asshole than oneself... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
