On Sep 6, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Ted Winslow wrote:
> Doug Henwood quoted Jefferson Airplane:
>
>> "You call it rain
>> but the human name
>> doesn't mean shit to a tree."
>> - Jefferson Airplane
>
> The full appropriation of "beauty" requires a fully developed
> subjective capability. So too does the creation of the highest forms
> of the objectively "beautiful".
>
> "Materialism" of the kind now dominant also has no logical space for
> the "subjectivity" of beauty in this sense, since it has no logical
> space for the the kind of "subject" it requires.
Carrol has long demonstrated his aversion to subjectivity, so I'm not surprised by this.
And of course the Jeff Airplane has a point, even though it sorta sounds like dumb hippie shit, though they weren't dumb themselves. I wouldn't want to anthropomorphize the universe. But what bothers me about Joanna and Carrol's positions is that they seem bereft of appreciation for humanity's better side. I say that as a fellow human, not from some vantage point high in the heavens. Why care about radical politics at all if you don't share some appreciation for us as a species full of possibilities?
Doug