Thin, very very thin. So thin a prole could almost see through it. After the power outage, maybe, the revolution.
Joanna
Chuck0 wrote:
> joanna bujes wrote:
>
>> He displays his usual depth here:
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/11/opinion/11brooks.html?hp
>>
>> Now maybe it's Alzheimer's (mine) but i'm totally lost in this
>> argument. He says that number people support Bush and paragraph
>> people support Kerry. Number people like hard clarity (like Bush) and
>> paragraph people like post modern ambiguity (like Kerry). Whatever.
>> Then he observes that 98% of academics support the demos....because
>> they're paragraph people. Last time I looked, half of academia
>> included Physics, Math, Life Science, Economics, etc. Plenty of
>> numbers there.
>>
>> What am I missing here? Why is it enough for a right winger to be a
>> moron to get published in the NYT?
>
>
> Let me postulate that this is just another example of the polarization
> between hardcore liberals and conservatives that has degenerated into
> a bizarre form of essentialism. The rest of the world can see no
> difference in this Lilliputian battle between "Big-Endians" and
> "Small-Endians," but thos einvolved continue to invent rheotorica
> about how each side is different from the other. I only had to listen
> to Alan Colmes on the radio to be reminded of this. It seems that the
> rabid liberal side of this current battle believes that liberals are
> essentially smarter and more intelligent than conservatives. One
> caller to Colmes' show tried to cite a bizarre "study" that used some
> IQ test to find that people in "red states" are less intelligent than
> folks in "blue states." This is, of course, the worst form of folk
> demographics. On liberal talk radio these days there is this constant
> bashing of Bush and his supporters as stupid. This is the liberal
> essentialist equivalent of all the bullshit that conservatives say
> about liberals.
>
> So I was thinking about this tonight as an anarchist and concluded
> that the most fun an outsider could have with this situation is to
> point out that both sides of this epic battle are basically the same
> thing. The new book from Counterpunch, "Dime's Worth of Difference",
> has an apt title indeed.
>
> Chuck
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