NP Baudrillard

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 17/10/2005 Otto wrote:

> To be honest about it: no idea.
>
> There are about 800 to 850 million people starving in Africa. This is 
> surely no argument against the Critical Theory.

I'd say that astrophysicists and molecular biologists also don't have 
much to say about (or to) that poor, starving 12 year old Ethiopian. 
(Not that it's an argument against "Science" either.) That style of 
polemic really scrapes the bottom of the barrel, and it only highlights 
the polemicist's ignorance imho.

Thx for the Baudrillard/Star Trek link. (Haven't read 'The Mote in 
God's Eye' btw.)

best

> In the end it doesn't matter if you die at 12 of starvation or at 55 
> of cancer.
> Nobody gets out here alive!

http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol2_2/shapiro.htm