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. --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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