[lbo-talk] McKinney never said it

[C. G. Estabrook]

Others can judge whether that's amusing.  But Ricoeur's phrase when coined
than 30 years ago was meant to characterize, not the approach of
conspiracy-mongers, but that of Marx and Freud.  It suggested that things
may not be what they seem -- that they require the application of critical
intelligence to be understood.  That still seems like a good plan to me --
a reasonable hermeneutic.

Also, I wouldn't say that Alex and Jeffrey deal in innuendo.  It's what
they say quite plainly that seems to upset people.

And BTW, my wife's Black Lab (called Helas A Dog) takes offense. --CGE

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Michael Pugliese wrote:


> "Did CGE have carnal knowledge of a labrador retriever?" Heh. Though
> scurrilous, given CGE has written often for Counterpunch where
> innuendo and what Paul Ricoeur calls "the hermeneutics of suspicion"
> is the first rule in the journalistic guidebook, funny...