On Feb 5, 2005, at 6:36 PM, philion at stolaf.edu wrote:
> I'll be kicked off of Marc Cooper's comments board again soon, which as
> Yoshie reminds me is a most desirable event. It pains Cooper to be
> reminded of the contradictions in his occasional vitriolic fits of
> anger
> he takes at those on the left who disagree with him. In his latest
> outburst, instead of something more useful, like say a homage to Ossie
> Davis?, he joins the O'Reilly gang in the attacks on Churchill,
> declaring,
> with the usual hyperbole, Churchill to be 'hateful', calling for
> 'collective punishment', etc. and thus rendering any serious critique
> of
> Churchill's arguments pointless.
>
> I reminded his audience of right leaning paranoiacs--with an admixture
> of
> a few reasonable liberals and middle of the roader types--that Marc
> Cooper's own hero Herbert Marcuse was known to make statements not that
> much different from Churchill's. So what gives? Churchill
> evil--Marcuse
> Snow white pure?
>
>
>> From a summary of Marcuse's orientation:
> ""In Marcuse’s view, the Third Reich was a technocracy, meaning that
> technical rationality and the demands of efficiency, along with the
> primacy of a “matter-of-factness” mentality generated nonhuman values
> that
> superseded those pertaining to the welfare of the people. Marcuse's
> description and analysis of “matter-of-fact” thinking, which he
> develops
> further in a later essay in this volume called “The New German
> Mentality,”
> argues that the technological attitude mediates human thought and
> relationships such that human individuality is weakened."
>
> That's Herber Marcuse, the Ward Churchill of the 1960's, Marc Cooper's
> New
> Left hero.
>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~cjscopy/reviews/marcuse1.html
>
> It is odd that none of this vitriol Cooper can direct at the left gets
> directed at his good buddy Horowitz, who is responsible for conducting
> a
> movement to censor professors who dissent from the Party line of
> empire.
> Simply a feat of intellectual gymnastics the likes of which few are
> capable...
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