kelley wrote:
> 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