Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:44:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Rooney <rooney-AT-tiger.cc.oxy.edu>
Subject: Re: Still pontificating after all these years




On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 Unleesh-AT-aol.com wrote:

> wow, Rooney, you are so cartoonish it's hilarious.

Well, I knew you'd relate to comic book cliche. 


> How you turn a statement
> like "apologist for the status quo" into the campy paranoia you've just
> spouted is beyond me. 

You underestimate yourself.  After all, you 
managed to turn my joke about projecting legal
statutes into a sinister, reactionary apology
for the dread "status quo".


> And I hate to tell you, but the notion of using words "correctly" IS
> tyrannical 

How so?


> .... and dictionaries do not preexist Webster, 18th Century,

<Giggle>.


> so words have various usages according to context.

Will the revelations never cease?


> Trying to regulate their
> meaning is to declare oneself an officer of the law of the father, the
> dominant social order, hegemony. 

As I said elsewhere recently, there is a difference
between assertion and justification.  Looking into
this might spare you repetition like the above.


> To be truly democratic with words, their
> meanings must be negotiated ;

Why should the concept of marriage be extended
to non-sexual unions?  Please, let us "negotiate".


> and in poetry, words are played with as well.
> We've already discussed your bland, prosaic, totally unimaginative style, and
> the fact that I prefer poetry. So there you have it.

Indeed.  Let's have some of your fine poetry:

}}} I'm suggesting depassing tropes which fit into socioepistemological
}}} configurations which are ultimately repressive.

Like, totally imaginative, dude.


Cordially,

M.