[lbo-talk] Re: Undecided Until the Last Minute Re: Dean's Self-Demolition

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Mon Jan 26 16:47:01 PST 2004


On Sunday, January 25, 2004, at 01:35 PM, Jon Johanning wrote:


> All too often, radical groups develop in what I would call a hot-house
> atmosphere -- only talking and listening to themselves, only reading
> literature on an approved reading list, looking down on the rest of
> the world as ignorant, unenlightened, uninformed, etc., etc. They
> assume that their communication process must be one-way -- they need
> to communicate their truth to a world that doesn't yet know it, and
> that world should just shut up and listen to them.

How different is this, really, from the Chomskyite belief that once people know the facts (as we present them), they'll reach the right conclusions?

All the best,

John A



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