[lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange

[Carrol Cox]

The proposition that "A text is dumb until given voice by an interpreter"
goes back a long ways. Calvin recognized it for instance, when he noted that
an "inspired text" implies an "inspired reader." Northrop Frye laid it down
as the foundation for his literary theory. I make these points so my post
can't be dismissed as a bit of 'post-modernism." 

Carrol

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Carrol Cox wrote:

Michael Smith

Bill Bartlett wrote: The rule of law is the best that can be hoped 
for in a class society

I would have said it's something that can't be hoped for at 
all, as a point of fact. Whether it would even be a Good 
Thing seems questionable as well. 

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Indeed. In fact it is impossible even in fantasy to imagine what "the rule
of law" would constitute. Law equals WORDS, and it is in principle and in
practice impossible for the same sentence to mean (exactly) the same either
for any two persons or for the same person on two different occasions. A
text is dumb until it is given meaning by an interpreter. It cannot speak
for itself.

Carrol

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