Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 02:34:07 +0000 (UTC)
From: anonymous <tlewis-AT-sdf.lonestar.org>
Subject: Re: Spectre of Madness


Steve wrote:
>
> such passivity. such faith. once its was a belief in god. then it was
> eugenics, then it was a gay gene, then it was cyborgs...

You can't refute the argument (i.e., that free will does not exist), so
you attack the person.

And you're just one of the voyeurs on the Deleuze/Guattari list anyway.
Watching all the schizophrenics from your superior vantage point. After all,
what exactly do you think schizophrenia means: speaking with one clear unified
voice? And with  one clear unified sense of identity. Is that how you
imagine schizophrenia? As Beckett said: "I'm all these strangers, all
the voices..."

But not you, of course, you're above all that.

You're nothing but a voyeur, hoping to spot any signs of confusion or pain
in a list devoted to schizophrenia, when you've already admitted you don't
care about the torture or mutilation of people, and as for the lyotard
list, you're just another tenured radical neo-marxist professor who despises
people, especially if they happen to be working class.

> laughs - didn't anyone tell you that we are entering the
> post-information society, that all the information society theories are
> collapsing before your eyes,  as the work flees to india.

laughs, right, laughs, oh that's good

I'm glad you find it so fucking amusing that people are losing their jobs,
oh radical tenured professor, friend of the poor, the oppressed and the
underdog.

Chomsky's in error, the East Timor genocide was no big deal, Baudrillard's
errors are less according to the all-knowing Steve, and Pynchon's
dangerous (so I assume he's got it all wrong as well, but we should listen
to you, right?)

And as usual, you've got it ass-backwards, the information society
theories are not collapsing. Man thought he had created a dehumanized,
computerized world, a world in which he was nothing more than
a number. But it was really the other way around: numbers representing
neural patterns had somehow become humanized. From an unambiguous and
objective representation of patterns of activity, the number became
transformed into "man" and "not man." This arbitrary object-subject
separation assured ambiguity, vagueness, and illusion.

So you interpret this as: "all the information society theories are
collapsing before your eyes....