They are smart.
It's depressing to be out-organized by them.
Chip
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 7:30 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Michael Tigar
>
>
> 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