The Mystery of Hitchens's Mind (was: Re: Bush Names Kissinger to Head 9/11 Probe)

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Fri Nov 29 12:05:07 PST 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Tothe" <yankee at webspan.net>


>
> I guess so...I don't have a clue what "post-structuralism" is, but I'll
bet
> it isn't worth my time to find out.
>
> .I read 50 or so pages and gave up.. came off as gibberish to me..and
> anything that has the word "post" attached to it makes me wince. Also,
> judging from some of the reviews of it-like the one on the Znet home
page-it
> didn't seem like they had all that much to say. But whenever anyone starts
> using dense language and concepts when discussing world affairs-this isn't
> physics-I get very skeptical that they really have anything of value to
say.
>

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The pitfall of this approach is that political adversaries will dismiss it as anti-intellectual. If politics were as simple as physics we wouldn't be political animals.

Ian



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