Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:56:32 +0200
From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se>
Subject: M-TH: Buffalo in the dark?


Amrohini J. Sahay writes:

>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...

and not more than a couple of sentences later:

>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".


Well, let's see... That puts Goethe, Marx and Lenin, for starters, into the
camp of philistine anti-intellectualism and ignorance.

Goethe, by the way was an early investigator of colour theory and his last
words were "More Light!", Marx (the Trier Marx) was a cousin of the
Philipses that founded the light company, and Lenin planned to bring
electricity to almost a third of the world. Shedders of light all, in their
own ways.

Or perhaps they are just "fraudulent" creatures of darkness because they
performatize "discourse that transgresses the boundaries of your
ignorance"?

An intellectual giant of our age, Deng Hsiao-Ping, opined that "all cats
are grey in the dark", of course. But perhaps he meant Buffalo?

Cheers,

Hugh

PS This should be on M-International, too, but I've overrun my quota for
the day, so it's a thaxis exclusive.




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