perversely wrong

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
> >
> > >From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
> > >
> > [clip]
> > >Carl, is it actuallly your view that intelligent people cannot disagree
> > >about fundamentals? That smart people cannot be right wing?
> >
> > Bingo, that is exactly my view.  I think right-wing philosophies are
> > inherently not only cruel but stupid -- ideas that will keep all 
>humankind
> > mired in needless misery so long as they are taken seriously.
>
>Carl, while I tend to think that Justin overrates, perhaps vastly
>overrates, the importance of "intelligence," your view is far more
>hopeless of change than his. First of all, you imply a total (idealist)
>voluntarism: ideas rule the world.

You got me there, buckaroo!  When all is said and done, I do think ideas 
rule the world, however much force sheer material reality exerts on its own. 

  And just about all the ideas that have ruled the world for the past 
generation and more have been bad ones.

BTW, enjoy your NYC stay, and while you're at it, give my regards to 
Broadway, remember me to Herald Square ;-)

Carl

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