Brown students trash Horowitz

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>No one but media junkies (which most Americans -- unlike 
>>LBO-talkers -- are not) will remember the Horowitz incident, the 
>>Dartmouth affair, etc.  "Playing into the hands of conservatives" 
>>doesn't seem to be worth worrying about.
>
>By that standard, most of the things you care about are irrelevant 
>too. Most Americans don't give a damn about Lenin or Bataille. But 
>is that really the right standard?
>
>Doug

Lenin, Bataille, etc. are interesting (Lenin, politically, Bataille, 
aesthetically), and I'm trying to make them interesting to my fellow 
leftists.  Horowitz & his likes, in contrast, are boring; not only 
are their politics obnoxious -- they possess _no_ redeeming aesthetic 
merit.  I can never understand why some LBO-talkers seem to take 
voyeuristic pleasure in observing the doings of odd Right-Wingers -- 
especially the ones who were once part of the Left.  Here's a case 
for psychoanalysis.  :-)

If you want to read conservatives, why not David Hume, Edmund Burke, 
Michael Oakeshott, Martin Heidegger, and so on?

Yoshie