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On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 05:14 PM, Thomas Seay wrote:
> Right. Hey, Brad, Joanna, and any of my other work
> colleagues. What do you say we pass the hat and give
> some of our money back to our employer OR something
> like "Save the Children" or UNICEF. WE are the source
> of the problem. By the way, anybody know where I can
> get a haircoat and cat o' 9 tails, I suddenly feel the
> need to mortify my flesh or at least go fast in a
> desert.
>
> -Thomas
> --- Steven McGraw <stmcgraw at vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Privileged individuals should not "struggle to get
>> as much as they can."
>> That is the logic of a market.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> What is the use of pitting the one against the
>> other?
>>>
>>
>> I am not pitting anyone against anyone else. The
>> professional and the
>> laboring class are already in competition.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Pugliese has told me he had encountered people on
>> the
>>> Left who complain that Martin Jay, author of
>>> "Dialectical Imagination", drives a BMW.
>>
>> A Neiman Marxist, so to speak?
>>
>>> So what
>>> is he supposed to do? Ask UC Berkeley to pay him
>> less
>>> so that he can be poor and "look" like somebody's
>>> stereotype of a "leftist".
>>>
>>
>>
>> Yes. Or make donations to some worthy cause. Why
>> do you consider this an
>> absurd idea? Are you also against a graduated
>> income tax?
>>
>> Consuming at a responsible level does not mean
>> "being poor." Jay's
>> obnoxious habit of tooling about in a BMW may not
>> weaken his analysis,
>> which I hope we can look at with some objectivity to
>> avoid resorting to ad
>> hominem, but everyone has a moral obligation not to
>> take more than his or
>> her share. This might even entail (gasp) making
>> personal sacrifices.
>>
>
>
> =====
> <<Be like me! The Primal Mother, eternally creative, eternally
> impelling into life,
> eternally drawing satisfaction from the ceaseless flux of
> phenomena.>>
> -Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy"
>
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