[lbo-talk] Finding the elephant in the room

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jul 16 14:32:27 PDT 2005


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> it's not the whole story.
>
>Some day a mathematician is going to win a Nobel prize in something or
>other by arguing profoundly that the denominator is not the whole story
>of fractions.
>
>This phrase -always, not just sometimes -- is in practice (and probably
>in intention) a way to abort discusion because scoring stupid points
>about the superiority of denominators to numerators is far more
>entertaining.

I keep forgetting it's much better to read you as performance art than as political commentary.

Doug



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