Jon Johanning wrote:
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> True in a sense, but it overlooks the point that, independently of all
> theories, shit happens: when, as Sam Johnson pointed out in arguing
> against Bishop Berkeley, your foot strikes the stone, the theory you
> were going on, that there wasn't a stone in your path, is rather
> seriously diminished in likelihood, to say the least.
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But unfortunately the biggest stones in the world aren't either visible or subject to kicking. How do you show the existence or non-existence of commodity fetishism as a primary stone in the world we live in? It is neither a stone on the ground nor, in the first instance, a thought in anyone's head. It is an extraordinarily complex set of social relations permeating all of our activity.
Incidentally, I don't know who introduced the subject line, but it's pretty silly. One piece of pound cake is worth 100 minutes of playing tiddly-winks. Fifteen minutes of Comic X is worth 10 full loads of laundry. The comparison stinks, whatever one thinks of either Moore or "cult-crit" (and the latter is a baiting term rather than a useful name of anything).
Carrol