[lbo-talk] Vive Jacques, Le Moor ! Vive la differance !

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown at michiganlegal.org>
>
>From: "Carl Remick"
>
>Hey, I'm all for ambiguity. It's one of the reasons I like Emerson so much.
>But I think there's a big difference between the skillful use of ambiguity
>to catalyze insight in the reader and the indiscriminate use of skepticism
>that simply breeds deep confusion in the reader -- which seems to have been
>Derrida's net contribution to the world. Mais comme en dit en francais,
>chacun a son gout.
>
>Carl
>
>^^^^^
>
>CB:  Frere Jacques bred deep confusion with the aim of overthrowing
>capitalism, n'est-ce pas ?

Chalk it up as another one of those "friendly fire" incidents -- this 
confusion seems to have taken a far more horrific toll of the left.

Carl