Mondaugen's_Law

Lycidas at worldnet.att.net Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Tue Jan 25 12:06:04 CST 2000


Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:
> 
> > There is no utopian time. Flip Flop. Keep cool but care, but
> > don't go waiting on no utopia, ain't goona happen bro.
> 
> Does this mean that Dystopia ain't gonna happen either?


I thought Dystopia happened already. 

Right! 

> 
> Hard as he tries does P ever manage to deconstruct binarism?
> 
> Correct answers may vary.
> 
>                         P.


My "correct" answer, and it is a bit of utopia/dytsopia/and
personal myopia I know, is YES he manages to, well
deconstruct is not my favorite term for it--not the critical
theorist's use of the term anyway, though the longer, older
philosophical use is more to my liking--undermine, with
irony and satire mostly, the basis upon which "order" rests,
but I don't think Mr. P is advancing the deconstructionist's
proposition that "privileges" rhetorical constructions.



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