[lbo-talk] Power (Waiting for Foucault)

[shag]

you, charles, joanna, and others who constantly babble on in substanceless 
ways re: the EBil Poe Moe remind me of students' common love of stroking 
their opinion. it's this weird frotteurism. i have my opinion, damn it. i 
don't have to have an argument that backs up my criticisms. i have an 
opinion on it, and he's wrong.  and not only that, my opinion is sacred 
man, sacred. i have a right to whip out my opinion and stroke it and love 
it and rub it all over everyone. see my opinion?! isn't it the coolest!? it 
is so sacred and cool. there, you need me to rub it right into the small of 
your back as we're riding the subway. hhhmmmmhhhhmmm. yeah baby. and all 
you people wanting to know why its Ok to rub my opinion all over everyone 
and stroke it like mad? well, i mean, obviously, you're followers of the 
Ebol Heidegger and Nazis and stuph! Now shut up while I spend the next 8 
hours trying to make pecker tracks on the ceiling.

At 04:44 AM 7/4/2008, Tahir Wood wrote:


>The idea that reason and violence are bound up together is not at all
>'wrong', it's banal, or should be by now (Hegel etc). The point is
>rather what sort of philosophical framework you want to embed this
>proposition in. But if, instead, you want to try and base a whole
>political philsophy around such a proposition you're going to end up
>with one that glorifies irrationality. But then you must be prepared to
>align yourself with Nietzsche and the nazi Heiddegger, 'cos that's where
>all this shit is coming from (especially Heidegger). Some of us think
>there are other roads to follow than those. And BTW it's pointless
>reading through a writer's entire oeuvre if you don't know why you're
>doing it. Life is short and the books they are many. Personally I prefer
>to avoid these meretricious 'stars' of the academic star system; there
>are better books and much better philosophers to read.
>Tahir

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