[lbo-talk] Liberals

[// ravi]

On May 31, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2011 21:59:49 -0400
> // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> 
>>> "All truth is a deep tautology." - Harold Bloom 
>> 
>> Such a terrible statement. I hope you don’t agree with 
>> it (even with the escape clause via addition of “deep”).
> 
> Oh it's awful on every level, if you look at it closely.
> Every word is wrong, really. Including "is" and "a", to paraphrase
> who, Diana Trilling?
> 

Yes, I missed the strange “a” — I mean, that’s just bad grammar isn’t it? “All … is a”? Isn’t this the guy who wishes to define the entire Western literary canon?


> "All" truth? The Peace of Westphalia treaties were signed in 
> 1648. This is indisputably true. Is it a tautology?

Fucking Platonists(*) :-).


> 
> And then "truth". As if true statements were little wedges carved
> out of some master-pie of "truth". Really, when one hears 
> the word "truth", with a capital T hovering somewhere in the 
> neighborhood, one ought to go for one's revolver.

Amen!

	—ravi

(*) sorry if that’s obtuse (and perhaps lame as well).