[lbo-talk] Re: No cock left behind

[Etienne]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:44:22 +1100, "Bill Bartlett"
<billbartlett at dodo.com.au> said:
> its a class thing. This style of writing, in other words, is a 
> systematic form of exclusion. It could be written in plain English, 
> but instead it is written in such a way as to make it impossible for 
> some and at least difficult for many to comprehend. The sub-text is 

Quite right. And the working class never read Capital either (or, for
that matter, the Bible).

I agree that clear writing is admirable. However, I'm suspicious of this
attack on complicated writing in the name of some imagined working class
other who, poor simpleton that they are, couldn't possibly understand
it. It strikes me as both lacking in historical perspective and, well,
pretty damn patronising.
-- 

     "The bourgeois want art voluptuous and life ascetic; the

      reverse would be better."

                                                          -- Adorno
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