polemic

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sun Mar 7 16:08:01 PST 1999


Doug says to Charles:
>>Ever noticed how e-mail threads that are polemical go more than others ?
>>Without struggle there is no progress. Contradiction underlies movement.
>
>It's debatable whether such longevity is a sign of progress, or just
>pleasure in the fight.

On good days, polemics make for a delightful mix of the Epic Theater that produces alienation effects and the Theater of Cruelty where bodies without organs collide one another with electric charge.

On bad days, it's a Nietzschean karma of the Eternal Return, in which one tries not to let noone else get away with the last word.

Yoshie



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