So, my questions (self interested ones of course): Why is "reading superficially" for blogs? How can a majordomo list ever be a blog? Okay, that's probably only a rhetorical question. I think it's impossible. The structure is all wrong. If Doug didn't read a single thing here and posted every day is Big Opinion on the world it still wouldn't be a blog because there's everyone else here speaking around him and not necessarily to or for him.
I know this is entirely at a tangent to everything the original thread was about, so sorry about that.
On Feb 5, 2008 11:32 PM, shag <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> i was overposted yesterday, but I was going to point out the same thing.
> Doug this is not a blog! You owe it to your membership to read more
> carefully! Reading superficially is for blogs. Save LBO from becoming like
> just another blog!
>
> At 02:15 AM 2/5/2008, Tahir Wood wrote:
>
> >Doug, could I point out something to you in the friendliest way
> >possible? You are clearly very busy, and the list itself is pretty
> >demanding, and what I'm picking up often now is that you scan messages
> >pretty quickly and decide what you think they are saying, based partly
> >on your preconceptions. I once wrote a PhD thesis on text interpretation
> >so I like to think that I know a bit about this. Nowhere in my message
> >could I possibly have been taken to deny that there is "some link".
> >I
> >took pains to point out through such careful and emphatic phrases as
> >"all in itself" to suggest that sexual repression cannot possibly be THE
> >SOLE explanation of fascism. For one thing that would leave many aspects
> >of the phenomenon unexplained. For another, it would be a rather naive
> >notion of causality. A useful way to think about this is always in terms
> >of necessary vs sufficient conditions. I'm not sure whether repression
> >is a necessary condition for fascism to emerge, but I'm pretty sure it's
> >not a sufficient condition. That would be so easy to refute that it's
> >not worth arguing: one would only have to have only one individual who
> >has never performed the sex act in his/her life, who turns out not to be
> >a fascist, perhaps a liberation-theologian priest or some such case. I
> >did suggest that early psychoanalysts often overreached themselves in
> >their claims for their emerging science.
> >Tahir
> >
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