Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:49:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Rooney <rooney-AT-tiger.cc.oxy.edu>
Subject: Re: God help us, back to tropes




On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Matthew King wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Jon Rubin wrote:
> 
> > The "if you need to ask what it is, you're never going to know" while 
> > fine for jazz is not so useful for politics.
> 
> In both cases, though, the answer is in the showing, not in the telling.
> Jumping from rock to rock *sounds* stupid, but it feels great.  

Just because some things can be shown but not
said does not mean that all saying is useless
or inapplicable.  This is particularly true of
politics, where lots of things feel great to
some but not-so-great to others.  


> Arguing
> with Rooney et al. is either an amusement or a mistake.  For every answer,
> they produce a new question.  The skeptical parrhesiast is always on the
> offensive, never satisfied!

That's Jagger, not Socrates.


Cordially,

M.