Michael Tigar

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jun 17 16:30:09 PDT 2002


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Justin Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>Chuck was
>> saying that all right wingers in govt were mediocre idiots. I listed a few I
>> thought were pretty smart.
>>
>
>My own feeling, not developed in any detail, is that all judgements in
>terms of intellectual capacity (low or high as the case might be) belong
>in the same order if not the same genus as conspiracy theories. They
>turn the focus away from social relations and history to focus on an "x"
>that is neither measurable nor even very definable.

I've got to say I agree with you on this. Justin, you admire this abstract quality of intelligence outside of what it does too much for me. So what if these fucks are smart? That makes them worse.

Doug



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