[lbo-talk] Re: gorgeous moscow subway stations

[Michael Dawson]

> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> >
> > >  the almost perfect discord between man-made structures and natural
> > >environment
> >
> > No kidding. Several years ago, after visiting the Oregon coast for
> > the first time - certainly one of the more spectacular bits of
> > natural beauty in North America - I drove into a convenience store
> > just a few miles inland. It was made of corrugated tin and looked
> > like hell. How could people do such a thing?
> >
> 
> How could they? Instead the prospective owners should have chopped down
> a couple douglas firs with their little dime-store hatchets, split them
> into boards with their pen knives, wrapped them together with vines they
> gathered on the mountain side. This is stupid -- as bad as Tully's
> statement that we all chooser to be wage-slaves.
> 
> Carrol

How does somebody with such consistently poor analysis end up being a
teacher of literature?  Tully says workers are their own exploiters.  Doug
says there's crappy architecture all over Oregon.  Carrol equates these two
arguments, and, despite his tiresome objections about being uninterested in
the qualitative origins of people's ideas, calls Doug "stupid," to boot!

In my kinder moments, I think Carrol's problem is just a severe excess of
loyalty over thought.  At other times, I just think he's a porthole.