Awhile back, he made some comment about Michael Parenti's book, God and His Demons. I thought that the the assumptions he made based on a book review were unlikely. In fact, I read the review differently. We argued from the get go. Didn't go anywhere b/c we hadn't read book, so couldn't judge much about the book review. Being someone who is always looking for a book to read and people with whom to discuss it, I picked up the book, read and reported back.
Joseph said, basically, "Gee thanks for the summary. I guess I was hasty in my assumption about the book."
So, I don't know, but whatever he was doing when Joe asked for some evidence and a summary or something.... in my experience, Joe has been sincerely interested and perfectly willing to say, "Oh hey, gee. I mighta been... wrong. Sorry!" I really doubt he was asking the question as some sort of trap or gotcha for anyone.
At 06:44 PM 5/10/2011, Joseph Catron wrote:
>Who, there! I never said I was auditioning for a supporting role in this
>production.
>
>That said, a word of advice, which you might do well to take to heart. Very
>few of us are going to take a list of titles, about which you refuse, in the
>shrillest of tones, to provide any additional information, seriously as a
>contribution to an exchange of information. If the people with whom you're
>used to dealing react to such a proposal by setting out to read your
>suggested tomes, without the slightest idea as to their contents ... well, I
>can't imagine which people you deal with. Whatever else one might say about
>Solidarity members, they are into having jobs.
>
>With that, I end my participation in this rather absurd exchange. Those of
>you with something worthwhile to say about Diamond (which is most of you),
>please carry on. I'm learning a lot from your conversation, even if I'm not
>weighing in consistently.
>
>On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Dissenting Wren
><dissentingwren at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> > Dude...you need to chill with a nice cold glass of milk or something. Do
> > you
> > remember this?
> >
> >
> >
> > > It is an amateurish jumping into a discipline without any attention to
> > > the many already existing works in this important area of knowledge.
> >
> > Such as ... ? I'll admit to a near-complete ignorance of prior attempts to
> > tackle the problem Diamond addresses:
> >
> >
> >
> > I gave you the benefit of the doubt and provided you with some titles. I
> > don't
> > even have a dog in the Diamond fight, so I was disinterested. Instead, you
> > wanted to be convinced that they were worth reading, and you wanted someone
> > else
> > to do the work of summary for you. Not long after, you were accusing me of
> > trying to lead you on an academic wild goose chase. Shit, read the books,
> > don't
> > read them, makes me no fucking never mind. But darling, you have no
> > lessons to
> > learn when it comes to the art of the flounce.
> >
> >
> >
> > Dissenting Wren
> > "MoS"
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> > Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 3:45:12 PM
> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] vaca reading
> >
> > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Dissenting Wren
> > <dissentingwren at yahoo.com>wrote:
> >
> > OTOH, when someone says here that he doesn't know anything about the
> > earlier
> > > scholarship that lies behind GGS, solicits titles, then responds to the
> > > titles
> > > provided with a snark, one may just smell a hint of troll.
> > >
> >
> > If responding to a naked list of titles with a request for information as
> > to
> > their actual contents is your idea of "snark," I smell more than a hint of
> > a
> > drama queen. Don't let me stand in your way, though; most lists have at
> > least one in residence, and they are, if nothing else, often good for
> > collective amusement.
> >
> > --
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