File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2003/lyotard.0308, message 82


Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:40:24 +0100
From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk>
Subject: Re: a question of myths...


Hugh

No I hadn't heard that saying - sounds deeply like a conservative 
unthought to me.  

So am I correct in understanding that the myth you are suggesting will 
dissapear is that of the 'intellect' and 'rationality and rationalism' ?

regards
steve

hbone wrote:

>Steve/Geof/All,
>
>On a scale of millions of years, species appear and disappear.   Industrial
>national economies are about 200 years old.  Globalization, in the modern
>sense, commenced with the dissolution of the USSR.  For Marx, it probably
>commenced with Britiish colonization and matured when the British dominated
>the Globe. If homo-sapiens destroys the environment, species will die.
>
>People value their freedoms after they have lost them, being conquered by an
>enemy nation for example;or being imprisoned for a crime. You've heard the
>saying:  "A liberal is a
>conservative who has just been arrested' a conservative is a liberal who has
>just been robbed."
>
>If one  accepts  the Spectacle, i.e. Media dominance of minds,  as reality
>not myth; if one recognizes  the power and promise (or threat)  of modern
>medical science and genetics;  and  if one acknowledges the inhuman
>treatment of other animals, the potential for mind control through current
>and future physical devices is real.
>
>Adherence to the 150 year old dogma of Marx, and reading, re-reading and
>quoting post-modernists of  the past 30 years, may be a circular road to
>nowhere that deepens with
>every cycle and will disappear within 200 years, or less.
>
>The here-and-now:  did anyone see the PBS Wide Angle documentary on China?
>China is duplicating the social horrors of England' in Marx's lifetime
>and those of the U. S. in the latter part of the 19th century. In Chinese
>universities,
>students choose science over humanities and the arts.  In the U.S., the
>student trend is opposite.
>
>Regards,
>Hugh
>
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