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[Lawrence]

I felt that Brad's point was that all of this has been going on for
thousands of years. It is pointless to call it "post-modern" or "modern". It
is old. Actually, that wasn't a point he was pressing so much as raising as
a question. Why does Jameson think any of this stuff is new? Can he point to
any society in the past where people didn't "so much produce our culture in
living our lives, where and when we are, but consciously make it up with an
eye to flogging it to someone." Virgil made stuff up with an eye to flogging
it to someone else.


> I take it that Brad's response is some sort of a sneer, the suggestion
> being--what? The Jamesom is as irrelevanr as Virgil? I'd like to bea s
> irrelevant as Virgil. Or that Jameson's is singing a poem to Bush, the
> modern Augustus? Or flattering his hosts by priaing their ancestors? Or
that
> Jameson is seeking donations by chicanery, taking advantage of the
religion
> of the credulous? Or just talking about something old, imaginary, and
> immaterial? (Because everything old is immaterial?) Am I being dense,
Brad?
> I'm not getting your point. --jks
>
> >>A nice bloke called Fred reckonms we're all economists now, that that's
> >>how
> >>we relate to each other, and that we don't so much produce our culture
in
> >>living our lives, where and when we are, but consciously make it up with
> >>an
> >>eye to flogging it to someone.
> >
> >And this is different from Virgil composing the Aeneid for Augustus
> >or Irish bards singing about the noble deeds of the mythical
> >ancestors of their hosts or monks making up stories of the saint
> >whose bone is in the wall to encourage donations... how, exactly?
> >
> >
> >Brad DeLong
>
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