The Left, The Public, was Re: Ideology....

[Gordon Fitch]

Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: >
>>>  Why of the infinite number of false categories one can extract from
>>>  daily life in the United States should one pick on the SUV drivers and
>>>  invent a mystic explanation holding them together as a sort of Platonic
>>>  form?

I thought the SUV business was interesting as a widespread
phenomenon, in that it gives clues about the state of what we
might humorously call the public mind.  Such a theory of
observation is completely materialistic, if we treat the
assumption that people have minds as materialistic (and
credible).