--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Thomas Seay wrote:
> >
> >
> > The above statement agrees with my suspicion about
> > Hitchens.
> > What seems to matter most to Hitchens is to
> maintain
> > (at least in his own mind) the status of
> "contrarian"
> > (ergo he can continue to imagine himself still a
> > revolutionary) while getting his ego stroked by
> his
> > appearances on tv, etc.
>
> Something analogous occurs among many professors in
> non-political
> contexts. I noted it when I was writing a history of
> late 19th and early
> 20th-c criticism of Pope's poetry. Quite a few of
> the critics I read
> would (a) want to join the chorus of sneers, but
> they had to pretend
> that this fashionable opinion was no longer
> fashionable and they were
> raising their voice against the current. Another
> analogue is the
> conservative plaint about the liberal media. There
> must be many such
> instances.
>
> Carrol
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