Liza
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>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: the master's tools
>Date: Thu, Sep 16, 1999, 2:35 PM
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>alex lantsberg wrote:
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>> The master's tools will never destroy the master's house.
>> - Audre Lorde in Sister Outsider
>>
>> [From the 50 Years is Enough list, reformatted by your humble
>> moderator. I don't think I agree with Audre Lord's aphorism at the
>> end of Njoki's sig file, but that's another story.]
>>
>>what do folks on the list think about the statemen? i'm
>>particularly interested in doug's story.
>>
>>frankly, i think that since the master has accumulated all of the
>>best tools, then oftentime we have
>>no choice but to use them.
>>
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>I'm not sure what tools she's talking about. Syllogisms? Calculus?
>Computers? Rhyme and meter? Complex social organization? There seems
>to me to be a big difference in how "tools" can be used - whether to
>dominate or liberate.
>
>David Henderson, the ex-OECD economist, thinks that the use of the
>Master's tool - the Internet - by anti-MAI campaigners is a very bad
>thing. Seems a very good thing to me.
>
>Doug
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