Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:52:00 -0500 (EST)
From: TMB <tblan-AT-telerama.lm.com>
Subject: Re:  God help us, back to tropes


On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Michael Rooney wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 Unleesh-AT-aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Mass murder is straw men???!!! Hardly! It's relevant! It's an example of
> > "ultimately repressive" conditions!!!! I have not invoked fundamentalism, I
> > have not invoked authoritarianism, I have not invoked consumerism!!!
> 
> Your repudiation of truth opens the door
> to all ideas, and thus to the aforementioned
> trio of terror.


Well, your view is typical of philosophers. Philosphy post-Nietezsche et
al knows very well that there are limitations to truth. A pure
repudiation, of course, does open those doors, but Unleash isn't doing
that. What limits truth is nonviolence, and, of course, that trio you
mention, or more generally, violence. For Nietzsche, the best he could
come up was whipping women. For you it's whipping Unleash, a game he is
probably too willing to play, as if it were the only way. But that's
because it's the dominat predecided operating system here. The references
to early school years is *so* telling. It marks a general domination of
this space by negation as (the lazy man's) access to being, in the form,
here of "negating schoolyard antics". While the polemics you celebrate,
which can, indeed have their moment (I think about 5 percent of the time
you put into it is about right), this is way overplayed and is utterly
in sync with a general aligment. It's doable, but gross, not very
productive, seeps toxins everywhere, restricts the range of accessible
thought and exploration, etc. It is an *ethical* problem, and it is
interesting just how the systematic elimination of "ethics" in the D/G
corpus is unable to come to the aid of this dreary progression aside from
the oft' vaunted affirmation of passion against the moralism it will
always alrady have set in place and turned on its head, which still looks
to me like stupid people tricks on David Letterman. Um, did *anyone* start
thinking in 6th grade or are we so few and far between that we just never
cross paths? Unleash, he started thinking in the 7th grade, I guess. You
probably never started thinking and just did the antimoralism thing, which
relaly isn't thinking so much as reversal and reconfiguration of the same.
<Yawn>. And Deleuze has the nerve to call Nietzsche's writing an
"antipolemics". Pulleeze!

TMB