Dull, dull, dull (was Re: [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter's Living)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Aug 4 17:19:55 PDT 2003


Shane Taylor wrote:
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>
> I think it's prudery. As in, "It's all so horrible, we have to be
> serious." Nonsense. Satire, parody, sarcasm, humor, wit, etc. -- all of
> these can trade in grim materials. Kubrick should have settled that
> decades ago.
>

You are speaking as though you know not only the inner psychic secrets of 10s of thousands, perhaps 100s of thousands, of people, over decades, but _also_ know the inner psychic secrets which they share in common.

Prove it.

I maintain that the claim is self-evidently absurd, and the burden of proof, an enormous empirical and analytic burden, is on those who would make a claim so absurd on the face of it.

Unless such proof can be provided, to make the claim is mere tomfoolery. + Carrol



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