Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 02:06:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: Dave's ideal of theory


> After all, Christianity, Islam, neoclassical 
> economics and EST all have 
> adherents who claim it has 'deepened their understanding'. But many of 
> the tenets of these 'systems' are mutually incompatible. 

So?  I thought you wanted usefulness, not global mutual compatibility.
And compatibility with what?  With things _you_ have found useful? 
What are your credentials as arbiter of what is, or is not, sufficiently
useful to others?  

> But D+G? Well, prove it! I honestly don't believe anyone knows what the 'body 
> without organs' actually is.

That _your_ problem.  Why would it be worth anybody's while to prove to
_you_ that they understand something?  

> It does strike me though that Camille Paglia, basically an essentialist 
> feminist no?, and all those right-wing fraying-of-America type people 
> you have, do manage to get published and do very well. 

I was talking about popularizers, not muckrakers.  Just in case so were you. 


-malgosia

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