>as for being dissatisfied with Marcuse's explanation, whatever...my
>father told me when I was a youngster that 'opinions are like assholes,
>everybody has one'...and this medium allows people to relentlessly spew
>forth their views, so putting one's own spin on Marcuse, Pachter, and
>Hughes is par for the course...someone who holds someone else with such
>contempt would not likely be persuaded anyway, so big fuckin' deal...
>
>all analogies being suspect, the Marcuse-Orwell one is especially so...
>the latter secretly writing down names for the British gov't of
>prominent figures whom he felt were so enamoured with the Soviet Union
>that they could not be trusted...didn't Orwell also exhibit anti-Semitic
>and anti-gay tendencies?...how far does one draw out a non-parallel
>analogy?...
>
Not a fair characterization of Orwell--who at least volunteered to fight fascists--or of his "list." But, then "opinions are like..."
Brad DeLong