Here we go again with the silly 18th-century "normative judgments imply an appeal to an absolute standard" bullshit. This wouldn't be so annoying if you didn't do it constantly yourself.
--- On Sat, 8/22/09, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] America's singularly depraved culture
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 5:01 PM
> Tje [jrase "singularly depraved
> culture" encapsulates two rather
> remarkable claims on the part of the critic: (a) he/she is
> familiar with
> a huge variety of cutlures as a basis for separating
> American culture
> from all others, and (b) the claim to know, to know with
> unchallengeable
> authority, an absolute standard according to which all
> cultures can be
> measured. If the critic demurs from such a claimof
> absoluteness, he/she
> may salvage his/her own modesty but also makes hash of the
> claim.
>
> Carrol
>
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