> Adorno wrote somewhere (in _Minima Moralia_, IIRC) that intelligence
> is a moral category. Doug wrote recently in LBO of "an active will
> not to know." I think lack of substantial leisure erodes the
> speculative
> capacities in people. Soundbite news and pervasive disinformation
> don't
> help either. Virginia Woolf wrote some amazing stuff about the
> destructive force of overwork among so-called professionals in her
> time.
> And so on.
In addition, I think the American working class is certainly intelligent enough to know how hard it is to fight "the Man" in their workplaces, to observe the corruption in their local politics (the current battle between Street and Katz for Mayor of Philadelphia, after "the bug," is turning up some very interesting comments from working-class "Fluffians"), and come to the conclusion that radical politics is definitely a losing game. Cooperating with the system, lousy as it is, is the only choice they have, they think.
How can we convince them they are wrong?
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.' -- Sir Arnold Bax