[lbo-talk] music in Iran: verboten

[Alan Rudy]

Not alone in this, surely, I've figured something out in my short time here
(at least relative to many).
Doug posts interesting/provocative things to the list.  Often this is a
somewhat reactive, "Hey, look at that.", kind of thing.  Often its an
inquisitive, "Hey, I wonder how folks'll respond to this.", kind of thing.
And often its a, "This is interesting, maybe someone/s on the list will look
into it further for me/us.", kind of thing.
A busy guy, Doug practices a good bit of his relationship with the list in
terms of snippets, reactions, snides, asides, irkeds, and re-irkings.  Like
many of us, sometimes he/we go off half-cocked, sometimes he/we respond/s
following extensive thought, sometimes - having worked a position out long
ago - he/we respond/s with shorthand.
At the same time, while he doesn't always do this himself (and who among us,
besides Shag and Dwayne [most of the time], is as good at this as we'd
like), its kind of a good idea to think about the political perspectives,
substantive content, patterns of responses and background positions he's
generated over the years before running to irrational knee-jerk extremes.

What struck me about the quote, and the context added by others, is it
sounds an awful lot like the sciency-mathy-techy,
anti-humanities-arts-and-social sciences terrain of the vast majority
American educational leaders.  I guess "American democracy" and the "Iranian
Revolution" each need (and don't see the need for) the same stuff to
succeed, a sad comment on both.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Aug 3, 2010, at 10:44 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 21:57:26 -0400
> > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Peter Ward wrote:
> >>> That's it: time to send in the bombers.
> >>
> >> Are you an asshole, or do you just do a good imitation of one?
> >
> > I'm with Comrade Ward here, asshole or not.
> >
> > One suspects very strongly that this is a factoid, to
> > put it mildly. It seems highly unlikely that Khamenei
> > really wants to do away with all music altogether. A
> > detached quotelet via Hamid Dabashi -- well. One will wait
> > for fuller information.
>
> A vulgar anti-imperialism can excuse anything, can't it?
>
> No one - Dabashi or me - is advocating a bombing run, you know.
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