[lbo-talk] Moderation

Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com
Sat Jan 13 07:27:43 PST 2007


On 1/12/07, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> >
> >On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
> >
> >>To the limited extent I've followed it, this voluminous sex chitchat of
> >>late appears to be the list's most stupefyingly irrelevant discussion in
> >>the many years I've been here.
> >
> >I don't want to reopen this, but sex is pretty important stuff.
>
> Sex is number one on humankind's list of top favorites by all accounts. Far
> be it from me to sneer at anything to do with sex. I just question the
> *timeliness* of having a meandering bandwidith-consuming exploration of the
> id at a time when first-magnitude historical events are unfolding in
> Washington. The LBO list can have a chinwag about the libido any old time,
> but this is a very special time, since a desperate George Bush has put the
> US on the potential glidepath to World War III. The eve of global war isn't
> something that happens that often and is deserving, IMO, of more list
> discussion.

There is an obvious solution: make erotic investment in the Middle East. Like I said, Shi'ism comes with self-flagellation, if that's what it takes. ;-> -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>



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