lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Aug 8 14:53:32 PDT 2001


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Carrol Cox wrote:
>>
>> So, you [Doug] believe that gray-green algae plan out all their wiggles in
>> advance? And you planned your gestation and birth in advance?
>>
>> Carrol
>
>Actually, Doug's insistence that eggs plan their whole life before they
>allow themselves to be fertilized is a sort of reactionary idealism
>(probably at bottom a vulgar or mechanical materialism rather than
>idealism, but we'll let that pass) that was too much even for George
>Will. Some official early in Reagan's administration, defending a
>reduction in spending for the disabled, argued that the universe is just
>and in some sense we all choose our destiny. Will's child suffers from
>Down's Syndrome, and he wouldn't buy that. I guess Doug would.

This is a hoax, right? Someone's hacked your email account, right?

Doug



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