[lbo-talk] Re: ______ and America

[Ian Murray]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
> This is weird. Doug is babbling utter nonsense, and he must know he is.
> The statement about "The Left" is a simple lie which he could not come
> close to supporting.
>
> Surely by the time someone as bright as Doug has finished 12th grade
> english he has learned how to abstract from different circumstances to a
> shared element. Now he wants us to fragment the world into an infinite
> number of free-floating molecules and refuse to consider any thought
> which tries to focus on the single molecule in front of us.
>
> In any case, it is Doug who loves to talk about Platonic
> will-o-the-wisps such as an abstract Desire disconnected from and
> irrelevant to the daily needs and desires of actual human beings. I
> don't know how to reconcile his fundamental puritanical platonism with
> this sudden plunge into the most grimly determined mindlessness.
>
> Carrol

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What the hell are you drinking and/or smoking? You need to stop.

Ian