File spoon-archives/french-feminism.archive/french-feminism_1997/97-04-21.004, message 8


Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 08:43:05 -0600 (CST)
From: Diana York Blaine <dyb0001-AT-jove.acs.unt.edu>
Subject: Re: chaos theory and entropy


Don Walter bends down from the metanarrative mount of "science" and
condescends to those of us in English Departments for daring to talk about
what he and his cronies do there in the corporate leviathan known as
UCLA's med center. What do we do for humanity in English Departments?
Well, I taught _The Jungle_ this week, which occasioned a nice discussion
about how our diet, the same "American" diet UCLA's myriad corporate
sponsors so eagerly produce and propagate, causes many of those very
heart problems that Don and his friends now need to fix. How often are we 
encouraged to discuss the ways _that_  reality is obscured?  Why attack
science? Because in its presumed objectivity it masks idiotic and chaotic
choices far too much of the time, serving greedy ends instead of insisting
on prevention (not lip service to it.) Why don't we apply some research
dollars to encouraging healthy food choices? After all the top five
killers are based on lifestyle. hmmm, too illogical? or perhaps too
chaotic? or is there not enough profit in it?  wouldn't need as much
medicine? with its so-called "side effects"?  what if we called them
"effects," since they are?  would people make different decisions about
taking them?  

I would think you'd be eager to support the discussions those of us in the
humanities (who aren't directly supported by corporate interests) are
trying to have rather than insulting our intelligence.  Do you think
people in the sciences get paid so much more than people in the humanities
because you're more objective than we are?  What a joke. The money pours
in to support a sick culture, not a sane one. Why else would you need to
be so insulting? After all, people who didn't go to med. school weren't
necessarily too stupid to go and had to teach English instead; I
personally found the idea of med school (and law school!) ludicrous. All
of that deadened emphasis on manipulating the material in the name of
"humanity" and the actual service of corporate America. Cui bono, eh?
"Science" seems insane to me and yet you talk to us like we're children
who cannot understand the important work the grown-ups are doing. This is
an odd list to join to try and tout your greater grasp of the truth. Why
is your reality more real than mine?

Diana






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