re Re: MDDM Washington

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, in the interest of fairness ...

--- Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
wrote:
> You two ought to write a historical novel that shows
> how it might have happened and subvert the mistaken
> popular belief that slavery is some kind of evil, by
> showing how benevolent slave-holding is really a
> good thing, not some feudalistic holdover that
> denies a slave a fundamental human right -- you
> could make it really pomo and show how slavery is
> neither good nor evil, it's just a matter of whether
> or not the property owner is a nice human being, the
> pragmatic approach, you know, that leaves those
> property and economic relationships untouched and
> expects that people will be nice to each other out
> of enlightened self-interest and respect for
> property values.

This is both unfair and uncalled for, to say the
least, in regard to both Otto (not to mention an ever
more innocent bystander) and to "postmodernism"
(leaving aside for the moment the question of ...). 
On the other hand, it's not an entirely unfair or
uncalled for critique of the laissez-faire, noblesse
oblige style neopragmatism of Richard Rorty ...


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