[lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?/ Why not the best for theworking class ?

[Michael Dawson]

Carrol says you get to write what you want, if you've ever heard of a piece
of work, even if you've never read or seen it.  Yet, he also says not to
ever write a sentence that describes a phenomenon that only applies to most,
but not all, cases described by your sentence.  Rumor is good, but 99
percent explanatory power is inadequate.  Golly, I wish I'd gone to ISU!

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 4:50 PM
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?/ Why not the best for
theworking class ?

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> John Thornton wrote:
> 
> >I don't watch "The Sopranos" but is glorifying unbridled unregulated
> >capitalism, which is what organized crime can be seen to be, really
> >the epitome of the Golden Age of TV?
> 
> Don't you feel that the first part of that sentence disqualifies you
> from typing the second part?
> 

There is more than enough information about The Sopranos in the air for
anyone to make general statements as John has. If someone wrote a
counterargument making a great deal of use of specifics from the series,
John would not be in a good position to respond to the whole argument,
but he still could (accepting the detailed description) argue with the
conclusions that defense drew from them.

Your proposition here would simply make 90% of conversation and writing
impossible.

I don't particularly agree with John, but it is really stupid to dismiss
off hand in this way his grounds for making the statement.

Carrol

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