[lbo-talk] Michael Lerner tattles: the state of the antiwarmovement

[ravi]

On 21 Sep, 2007, at 16:41 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> The more I think about this the more ludicrous it seems. In most of
> my writing and broadcasting, I don't talk very much about
> personalities. There are a few people I do like to kick around -
> Stanley Aronowitz and George Gilder come to mind - but it's mostly
> because I think their arguments and positions are consistently and
> extravagantly silly. But you'd really have to search a long time to
> find classically ad hominem analysis.
>

All true. I have always found you a decent sort of chap, brimming  
with conscience and other good stuff, so the point of my post (unlike  
Carrol's more avuncular exegesis) was not to characterise your  
literary output.

My post could use you as an explicatory device though, if I may: A  
while ago, Andie wrote (regarding, IIRC, your defence of / fondness  
for pomo) that you suffer a discord between style and taste (your  
style being crisp, analytical, etc while your taste tends towards  
pomoesque aria). In a similar fashion, perhaps, I think there is a  
lack of reconciliation, dare I say a wilful differentiation, between  
intuition (decency, conscience, etc) and ideology/image ([analyical]  
correctness, sophistication, syntax, etc) to be found in you (viewed  
as a representative of the global North) ... a strange matter of  
throwing the baby out to save the bathwater!

If that all sounds like a load of rot, that's because it probably is!

	--ravi