stupidity dialectical; or, how about them Mets!

Ted Samsel tejas at infi.net
Wed Jun 11 05:40:54 CDT 1997


What a piece of work is muddle sez: 
> 
> fetishizing contradictions is not a dialectical procedure.  it is salon
> relativism.
> 
Then belly-up to the bar!

> 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.

You definitely are no sinus. I know, s'not funny.
> 
> 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.

You'll never keep the Press happy with a hospitality table full of
sheep turds, nossir!
> 
> then, all that is left are cat-food disturbances at the express-line.

So you have opted for the canned cat-food pate ploy. Old jokes are always
the best.

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net 
  "I want the frimfram sauce with the orson-fay
         and chifaffa on the side...."




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