[lbo-talk] Re: The Importance of Choice

[Michael Dawson -PSU]

Yeah, something funky's awry when somebody who spends as much time reading
and thinking about human non-fiction as Carrol does can actually say this
kind of remarkable stuff.  Seems to me like there's a manic quality to the
depressive syndrome, too:  The masses are merely nodes in the machine, but,
of course, the Theorist must not have HIS (women, save perhaps Judith
Butler -- don't know; can't read far enough into her jungle -- don't talk
like this) individuality and freedom respected and admired, worshipped even.
Who else will father the Revolution?  Who else will decide when to massage
the fronts of necks?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: The Importance of Choice


> Michael Dawson -PSU wrote:
>
> >Carrol Cox:
> >wherever and
> >>  whenever we find "ourselves," we are always already involved in
action,
> >>  i.e., in an ensemble of social relations apart from which we have no
> >>  existence at all....
> >>  I very much doubt that any of the primates can be individuals, and the
> >>  concept of a human being an individual is obscene
> >
> >These two claims require no response.  They reveal the quality of mind of
> >their author, who defines virtually everybody alive on today's Earth as a
> >practicer of obscenity.
> >
> >Carrol = Louis Althusser who writes better and is more honest.
>
> Yoshie got annoyed when I suggested this sort of thing is a
> depressive symptom, but the more I think about it, the more
> persuasive it seems. Depressives are haunted by feelings of guilt
> and/or emptiness, feel that taking action is hopeless, and often
> advertise their sense of helplessness and self-reproach at high
> volume. What I see here is that depressive constellation masquerading
> as a political philosophy.
>
> Doug
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