[lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye

[Alan Rudy]

I see, you get to read poorly en route to reactive responses to
misinterpreted single posts - rather than collegially giving sparing
partners credit for the breadth and scope of their prior contributions,
political sophistication and decades of work generating their positions -
and no one gets to point it out... but if we do, we get the childish
mainstream sociological slap that we're just generating inconsequential
humanitarian lit crit arguments and accusations of wasting your oh-so
precious time.  Because, surely, no sociologist or person with left
political leanings has any responsibility for careful reading, reflective
arguments or a knowledge of ideology critique... we just need the facts,
your facts.

Thanks for reminding me that I really do need to do a better job of limiting
myself to the disciplinary boundaries critical and interdisciplinary
scholars and activists have been knocking down for eons.  Mea culpa, I'm
going to head over to those 1960s-educated Stanford mathematical
sociologists that undermined my career arc and apologize for wasting their
time - and, even worse, that of their students - with the kinds of
historically informed, geographically situated and semiotically rich
environmental, science, medical, urban and cultural studies I argued for in
curriculum meetings and taught in my seminars.  Next time I see EP Thompson
or Raymond Williams or Walter Benjamin or Antonio Gramsci or Dorothy Smith
or Donna Haraway or Michel Foucault or Bertell Ollman or David Harvey or
anybody who like them, I'm gonna kick them in the nuts for taking me down
such a totally irresponsibe set of intellectual and political paths... damn
I hate them and thanks for reminding me.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Alan: WS, if you read the whole sentence and pay attention to its structure
> and
> components,"
>
> [WS:} I leave that to lit critters.  If you do not have anything  to say on
> the substance, I'd prefer you do not waste my time.
>
>