[lbo-talk] Glenn Beck breaks down in tears, blubbers on-air AGAIN

[Carrol Cox]

Mao's quotations exist in several contexts, and in _some_ of those
contexts "cartoon" isn't too far off as a description. The
genre-deafness bars perception of the different relevant contexts.
Ignorance of what might be called the _texture_ of the Chinese
Revolution could partially account for the phenomenon(or perhaps
textureS, since that revolution differed from itself in different times
and places). A rather large number of the 600 million Jenny refers to
wereilliterate: how does that change one's perception of the genre? Of
course one could insist that the illiterate had no right to participate
in public life until they could read Adorno and Milton, and in _that_
context the Quotations would certainly be a cartoon. Is the tie worn by
most corporate executives, professors, and some journalists a cartoon?
The Red Book was in some instances an articvle of dress, indicating
one's group affiliation. Looked at  historically, cartoons can be of
great interest also.

It's odd that some cannot imagine anger or delight except in the context
of a full affirmation of Aristotle's or Calvin's ethics! I'm trying to
imagine someone viewing the film CIA agents torturing a suspect but
before reacting quic kly turns the pages of his/her favorite book of
ethics to see if there is cosmic foundation for being pissed off. The
so-called "post-moderns" had a lot to say abut foundationalism, and that
is the issue at stake in deciding whether only a moral metaphysics can
found a rejection of capitalism.

Carrol

P.S. Mao wrote a fine poem in memory of his first wife, tortured to
death by the Nationalists. He also wrote an entertaining one on the
revolutionary hot pepers of the south in comparison to the dull diet of
the North.

P.S.2: I like the coinage, "Dossbombing"!

Eubulides wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net>
> 
> > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:05:13 -0700 (PDT)
> > "shag" <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > Doug has a tin ear for genre, he needs six months in a monastery with
> >> > no
> >> > books to read but Sidney's "Apology for Poetry," Milton's Areopagitiva,
> >> > and Pope's Essay on Criticism
> > >
> >> well mister. i suppose there's no moral judgment there, is there!
> >> harumph!
> >
> > Sounded like a *literary* judgement to me, actually.
> 
> =============
> 
> Dossbombing CC is the fad of the week............
> 
> "Look mommy, there's a drunk man searching for his keys under the street
> light!"
> 
> Ian
> 
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