On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 09:56 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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> Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
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>> ....the passion he asserts the richness of our society has killed
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> I would like to see that expanded. The main weakness of a huge majority
> of individual leftists today is their unexamined assumption that change
> as change is good, stability as stability is bad. This view you ascribe
> to Baudrillard seems offhand to be the kind of nostalgia that might
> inform this superstitious valuing of change.
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> Carrol
well, i certainly don't claim to have any special grasp of baudrillard, but i don't see the connection you do between his nostalgia and a notion of change=good and stability=bad.
j