[lbo-talk] 200 greatest albums of all goddamned time!

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/9/07, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote:
> There are some substantial posts from me in the archives, which I wont
> try to dig up now, arguing that valuations which offer negatives are
> essentially an attempt to claim superiority to other people, and are
> therefore ethically suspect. The only ethically allowable judgments are
> positive judgments.
>
> Carrol
> =============
>
> Reflexivity alert....

On 3/9/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Who's the better poet? Edgar Guest or Ezra Pound? e.e cummings or
> John Milton. If the former in both pairs, or if it doesn't matter,
> then why did you devote much of your professional life to studying
> the latter?

When political stakes are low (as in the case of judging bands, poets,
etc.), ranking is unnecessary but fun, but when political stakes are
high, ranking is necessary but tragic.
-- 
Yoshie
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