[lbo-talk] A short soliloquy on freedom and fishing

[Carrol Cox]

martin schiller: When Joanna posted "The whole point of being an
intellectual, it seems, was to distance yourself from working class.", my
first reaction was to suggest that the point might also be viewed as an
exercise in rationalizing the intellectual's distance from the proletariat.

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This gets closer. I think it is of crucial importance _always_ to keep in
mind the priority of action to thought. Ideology, then, is simple empirical
generalization of experience; theory, then, is _usually_ but _not_ always a
conscious attempt to rationalize that activity. Kant on time is perhaps a
fine example of turning ideology into theory. And that would bring us to
martin's point.

Speculation: We do not, ever, _experience_ abstract (Newtonian) Time, but in
a world ruled by the Clock (even in minor matters: e.g., appointments to
meet someone for lunch) we attempt, more or less successfully, to 'stuff'
experienced time into abstract time.

Carrol