Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:53:20 +0000 From: Iain McKay <iain.mckay-AT-zetnet.co.uk> Subject: Re: primitivism and anarchism hello all Dave Coull wrote: > In my experience, the sayings of situationists are > anything but clear. In fact, far from "clarifying" > things, quoting some situationist is more > likely to make things more OBSCURE . actually, this is one of the situationists sayings which is clear and very true. > > "Theory -- where you have ideas > > Ideology -- where ideas have you" > > It's a bit like Zen, isn't it ? > But zen I never underztood zat eizer. > > It's just playing with words. but making a point in the process... which is cool. > Yes, but what does that have to do with the fairly > pointless quibble over whether anarchism is a "theory" > or "a system of ideas and ideals forming the basis > of an economic or political theory" ? maybe, maybe not. But I like that saying and stick by it. Feel free to ignore it. It's not that important! Iain
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