On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Michael Dawson wrote:
> If I'm so messing up your meaning, what is it? What have I gotten wrong? I
> wrote that freedom of choice was fundamental to human welfare, and you wrote
> back saying that might be ethnocentric and that freedom of choice might be
> over-rated. People, you argued, were quite happy living in traditional
> societies that didn't prize freedom of choice and individuality like we do.
> What's missing in my comprehension of what you've said?
So far, so good. The "think harder" comment was in reference to your reliance on obscenties and ad hominem arguments to respond to my views. Read Yoshie's post quoting Althusser at some length; this pretty much sums up my views on the problems with your celebration of the "free subject".
Miles