stereotypes

[kelley]

At 06:36 PM 5/30/01 -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>>>Call it perversive, but I derive a great
>>>>pleasure from shitting on party lines and altars.
>>
>>which makes you exactly like the kids you are complaining about.
>>
>>now THAT's perversive.
>
>Nowadays, nearly everyone is ashamed of being called orthodox.  Even 
>conservatives want to see themselves as heterodox.  Among leftists, it 
>goes without saying that orthodoxy -- whatever it is -- is a sin (if not a 
>sin, certainly politically incorrect).  In part the fear of being called 
>orthodox is a fear of being common, ordinary, & unoriginal -- a very 
>modern & modernist fear.  It's a fear that we should overcome; otherwise, 
>political discussion gets silly.  "Party lines" should be rejected only 
>when they are false, not because they are "party lines."
>
>Yoshie

being orthodox is no more a virtue than valorizing heterodoxy. demanding 
that we fall into a party line WTF that is, is rebelling against a dominant 
ethos in the same way the hallway hangers and woj and the cons and, why 
hell, even i do sometimes.

by definition, party lines foreclose questions of the truth or falsity of 
the party line.  it's the paradox of scientism. (yes, that's scientisim; 
not science. in case JF wants to know)

kelley