[lbo-talk] school uniforms (was: Ehrenreich responds to BDL)

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Mon Aug 25 09:03:24 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>


> Of course we are all unique:it would be impossible to be otherwise. And
> we all think for ourselves out of our ongoing history. It would be
> impossible to do otherwise. Eliot remarked that a wholly original poem
> would be unintelligible to anyone. It's the reification of
> "individuality" as a mystical substance one strives for that is at
> issue. Also the plain vulgarity of thinking that choosing this color or
> that color for a shirt has anything to do with freedom or autonomy.

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No one on this list has reified "individuality" into a mystical substance and you know it, nor has anyone asserted that choosing a shirt or color has anything to do with freedom or autonomy.

Ian



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