[lbo-talk] Re: Political Cartography

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> 
> > (JKS) It is quite rational not to be a radical. It
will
> only get you in trouble.
> 
> (CC) You don't accept that narrow conception of
> "rationality" any more than I
> do. I think Webster's Duchess had it down: "I am the
> Duchess of Malfi
> still." Any full sense of "rationality" has to
> include that.

I am not sure that I grasp your meaning here: is the
thought that it's rational to hang on to your identity
even in disaster?

This statement of the Duchess's occurs shortly before
she, her servant and cofidant, and her children are
strangled and her husband murdered. While we are are
on the subject of Jacobean tragedy, maybe Albert S,
having found the happy ending in King Lear, can turn
The Duchess of Malfi into a comedy.


> what I
> > am asking for is some rational reason to think
> that
> > that we are going someplace good.
> 
> Well, for one thing, reformists make really lousy
> reformers. No
> revolutionaries around, no even minimal reforms.

This is supposed to help me feel better? Do you see a
great flowering of revolutionaries clamoring
effectively for reforms? Granted, as a corporate
lawyer I'm not in the best place to see one way or the
other, but the words of the Red Flag, "Chicago joins
the surging throng" (of revolutionaries raising the
scarlet standard high) seems a bit of an overstatement.

		
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