Denial: The Liberal Utopia

[Michael Bailey]

on the plus side:
"To refer to the fourth missing term of Rumsfeld’s epistemology, the
injunctions were your “unknown knowns”"
is nice...

On the minus side:
Fight Club a masterpiece????

...and then this:
"A close look demonstrates that we truly enjoy smoking and drinking
only in public,
as part of a public “carnival,” the sacred suspension of ordinary
rules. The same
goes even for swearing and sex: none of them is at its most radical an activity
 in which we “explode” in spontaneous passion against the stifled
public conventions –
 they are, on the contrary, both practiced “against the pleasure
principle,” for the gaze
of the Other. (A personal note: I like to swear only in public, never
in private, where
I find doing it stupid and inappropriate, indecent even.)"

- - - - may be true for him but to assume it so for everyone is unwarranted
(especially the sex part)

I have a problem with most political philosophers, which is that they,
ineluctably,
as finite individuals, have limited access to data, and limited
descriptive abilities,
but they don't seem to think that this should produce
a corresponding limitation of their willingness to issue prescriptive ideas,





-- 
- "The doctor said give him jug band music; it seems to make him feel
just fine!"