[lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 16 08:53:09 PST 2009


On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Chris Doss wrote:


> Thw comment I was responding to was this:
>
> "If one likes the poems of right-wingers, one might want to do a
> little introspection. Most "deep" thoughts, even "personal" ones,
> impinge on politics and ideology."

That's pretty different from the way you'd interpreted it:


> If I refused to enjoy the products of people with views alien and/or
> repugnant to my own, this would close of all of human artistic
> production created before around 1800. Bad Dante! Bad Homer! Evil
> Voltaire! Down with Shakespeare!

Isn't it always worth thinking about why you like or don't like things?

Doug



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