Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:14:53 -0400
Subject: Re: Wacquant on boxing


Fair enough!  But my question is a valid one.  Intellectuals love 
violence--in theory and from a safe distance in most cases--so one must 
always be suspicious until one gets the scoop.  The lesson the 20th century 
is how millions of people get psychologically primed for fascism.  Blood 
sports is one of them, and the intellectuals' fascination with boxing 
reveals their own sadomasochistic lust for power and their predisposition 
to submit their own intellectual gifts to naked power.  Hence I think you 
need to direct your concern over what is inflammatory to the real purveyors 
of barbarism.  Academics love getting angry in theory, but when somebody 
gets angry for real they shit they pants.

At 04:19 PM 7/13/01 -0400, Elaine Power wrote:
>Please don't grind your personal ax against boxing on Wacquant's back. Read
>some of his work instead.
>
>Elaine Power

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