File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/97-04-15.135, message 113


From: UticaRose-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:28:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: M-TH: Re: M-I: PANIC LEFTIST - FRAME FOUR


there are no shortage of brainy bullies out on the info highway cruising for
personal fights. so, amrohini j. sahay can not resist the temptation to mix
his brainy abstractions with personal slights. 

no doubt about it. sahay and the other lefty heavies who expend such energy
on manipulating symbolic logic are so correct that it hurts. with all these
brainy guys
i guess the question still remains, where is the revolution ? and, why so
much
failure with such an abundance of insight and brilliance. perhaps a little
less time
scoring and a more friendly attitude would help ?

In a message dated 97-04-13 14:00:30 EDT, ajsahay-AT-mailbox.syr.edu (Amrohini
J. Sahay) writes:

<< Revolutionary Marxist Collective at SUNY-Buffalo
 ********************************* 
 PANIC LEFTIST - FRAME FIVE    
 
 UTICA ROSE -- whoever you are -- who is intellectually arrogant?  Those
 who put their discourses in the pubic space for an open critique or you
 who ask us to "translate" our discourses into a language which is
 convenient to you?  At the heart of intellectual arrogance is solipsism
 and it is hard to find a more exemplary instance of bourgeois solipsism
 than the one you display in your text. Your philistine
 anti-intellectualism is the measure of the "authentic" left.  Any
 discourse that transgresses the boundaries of your ignorance is fraudulent
 -- the universe (of discourses) evolve around your tiny little world...
 It is in such moments of solipsistic totalitarianism that the politics of
 "style," "transparency," and , above all, the slogan of change "from
 below" (that mandates speaking and thinking only in the commonsense of
 ideology) becomes more clear.  By "from below" (which is supposed to be a
 critique of the elitism of "theory", it turns out, what is actually meant
 is the "below" of ME... so ME in my ignorance do not feel
 lost...confused...  
 	Utica Rose -- whoever you are -- if you were not so secure in your
 ignorance, you would have realized that "uncle" (as in "Uncle Lou") has
 nothing to do with "age".  It has to do with the ahistorical views and
 interpretations that he puts forth when he wraps these panhistorical
 hallucinations in "dates," "places," "remembrances"...and represents them
 as "history" -- e.g. his idea of "performative left"...  Utica Rose --
 whoever you are -- you can rest secure that you are not alone in your
 philistine anti-intellectualism and defensiveness: Scott McLemee -- the
 agent of LINGUA FRANCA which is the moral equivalent of NATIONAL INQUIRER
 in the academy -- tells you that he is your brother-in-ignorance. Theory
 is "gray", "life" (code word for ignorance) is "green". He says he reads
 REALLY difficult texts...he must mean by "reading" than he "sees"
 difficult texts since there is no trace of these difficult texts in his
 thinking here or in the LINGUA INQUIRER FRANCA...  
  >>

can you even describe a philistine ? having done that, could you please
advise if you have ever done anything other than read or tell others how
precisely smart you are ? 

so, life is ignorance. enough said.




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