[lbo-talk] crises kill

Joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Wed Feb 27 22:37:42 PST 2008


Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>
> As Chomsky once remarked, it may indeed turn out that intelligence is
> not a successful adapation, that the very things most of us consider
> to be our crowning glories - consciousness and intellect - bring with
> them so much baggage in the form of a love a bullshittery (perhaps an
> extension, in some perverse way, of our love of good stories) that we
> fail to do what we need to do.
>
Intelligence cannot defeat power. But possibly laughter can.

Joanna



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