[lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion

[Seth Ackerman]

Doug Henwood wrote:

> The fetish for "clear speech" is yet another ideology. It assumes  
> that truth can be made easily transparent. 

No, it assumes that truth can be easily obfusctaed. Hence the insistence 
on clear speech.

> But, as the Old Man said,  "There is no royal road to science, and 
> only those who do not dread  the fatiguing climb of its steep paths 
> have a chance of gaining its  luminous summits."

Of course, if you get lost on the way to the summit, you can always make 
people think you succeeded by recounting your journey in murky, 
convoluted prose!

Seth