Clarity

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Apr 7 09:51:56 PDT 2001


There is the clarity of:

Buy one 4-oz tube of Sensodyne

And there is the apparent clarity of

Buy me the kind of painting that I like.

The question for social analysis is to identify the mixture of honest confusion and deliberate malice in those who pretend that even ordinary discourse can be satisfied with the latter kind of clarity.

Carrol



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