[lbo-talk] gore vidal is an old, cranky prick

[Miles Jackson]

Chris Doss wrote:
> That would be true if you were a fictional character, rather than a physical object.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> Or as I've often put it, I don't have a history, I am my history, and
> that history is an ensemble of relations, of varying social forces. 
>   

We're not just physical objects.  We are people with identities, values, 
attitudes. and language, and all of those integral elements of our lives 
are the products of social interactions and social forces.  The banal 
statement that we have physical bodies does not change this basic social 
fact.

Miles