stupidity dialectical; or, how about them Mets!

Mittelwerk at aol.com Mittelwerk at aol.com
Tue Jun 10 13:55:40 CDT 1997


fetishizing contradictions is not a dialectical procedure.  it is salon
relativism.

the purpose of contradiction is that it is natural history's way of asking
you, subjective receptacle of cognition, to intervene--that is, to mediate.
 And you can't reside in the mittel without doing the werke.

when little Ms. Lifeworld (who analyzes sheep-stool for Archer Daniels
Midland), decides she is taking part in a process which no longer demands
mediation, the ghost is given, thank you.  Her stupidity--as everywhere, an
opposition which no longer includes its opposite within itself--still
proceeds dialectically, down into her like a hole.  And the world becomes a
dialectic towards the end of dialectics:  an object free of subjects.

then, all that is left are cat-food disturbances at the express-line.



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