----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Murray <seamus2001 at attbi.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 12:05 PM Subject: Re: The Mystery of Hitchens's Mind (was: Re: Bush Names Kissinger to Head 9/11 Probe)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Tothe" <yankee at webspan.net>
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> >
> > 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.
Yes...I have heard this said before. This implies that does that don't speak and write they way the Empire crowd does are somehow too simplistic in their approach...whatever. You have to make judgements based on how you think the world works....you have to determine who is presenting a compelling logical view of the world and go from there. I see know need for the dense verbage and PM nonsense, but too each their own.-Tony
If politics were as simple as physics we wouldn't be
> political animals.
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> Ian
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