Ends/Means Re: [lbo-talk] What History Will Remember

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 7 09:26:12 PDT 2003


Another Dr. Benway fan! "What fucking idiot has cut the cocaine with Saniflush?" "Dr, the patient is gone." "Ah well, All in a day's work." Btw, I was noticing the early in Naked Lunch there's a passage where adolescent juvenile delinquents from Benway's Freeland go apeshit at the UN, shitting on the floor, wiping their asses with treaties . . . . Sound prescient? jks

"H. Curtiss Leung" <hncl at panix.com> wrote:I understand (but don't agree with) your point, but the example is lousy. Remember Burrough's Dr. Benway: "I deplore brutality...it's inefficient."


> All means are measured against the end they serve. Torture is permissible
> when justifiable by the end it serves.
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