From: "Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu>
Subject: M-TH: buffalo cult
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 16:16:54 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)


     I would have sent the same message about this to both 
M-I and M-Th, but Jon B.M. is on his high horse about 
"cross-posting," so, kiddies, here is a slightly modified 
version.
     In their posting of a letter from Zavardseh (sp?) the 
buffaloes have used the phrase "cult of confusion."  They 
indeed indicate their true nature with this, a cult that 
cannot see anybody outside of themselves as anything other 
than an ignorant evil "other," "cyberfascists," and other 
ludicrous (or ludic(rous) or "ludicrous" or lewdicrous) 
nonsense.
     The poor buffaloes complain about getting ridiculed.  
But then, this what the ridiculous deserves.
     BTW, just to get thaxis-serious like for a minute, I 
do happen to think that Foucault's discussion of 
epistemological discontinuity is one of his more 
interesting ideas.  Of course the buffaloes turn it into a 
pathetic hash.  But then I wouldn't know much about 
discontinuity.  I only wrote a book about it back in 1991.  
But the buffaloes probably wouldn't like it:  besides the 
usual Hegel, Marx, Engels, Schumpeter, there is a lot of 
math and the likes of Thom, Mandelbrot, Cantor, Poincare, 
Arnold, Sharkovsky, Smale, and other notorious 
cyberfascists.  Not enough illustrative quotation marks or 
illuminative hyphenations for this hyperintelligent crowd. 
I should go and ram my head into a television screen, 
obviously.
Barkley Rosser

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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu




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