[lbo-talk] the Heritage/WSJ Freedom index is meaningless

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Sun Mar 27 15:33:43 PST 2005


Thomas Brown wrote:


> I would also suggest dropping your closing paragraph. It would be foolish
> to suggest that the factors in the index are "meaningless", or that
> everyone on the right doesn't try to make sense. At best, you can argue
> with how the index is constructed and what it means. To go beyond that is
> demagoguery.

No, it's called critical interpretation, a.k.a. putting the facts into context -- and it's the key to political activism, aesthetics, social consciousness and transformation. (That's why works of art can be untrue -- fictional or false, in the narrow sense of the term -- yet deeply true on another level). If you cede that ground to the Right, you've automatically lost the battle before even starting.

-- DRR



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