Why Is Jared Loughner Obsessed With Grammar?

[Mark Kohut]

There was a guy named Stirner, who wrote a book called, in English
The Ego and Its Own. Late nineteenth century, i think--you can look it up.

TRP may have alluded to him in that encyclopedic masterpiece Against the
Day. 

He made the case that language through its very grammar shaped our mind,
specifically,, ahead of his time, that grammar showed self-centeredness, 
patriarchy
and worse......I think. 


 


----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 4:15:40 AM
Subject: Why Is Jared Loughner Obsessed With Grammar?

"The Southern Law Poverty Center's Mark Potok, whose job it is to keep
track of the various crazies this country breeds and nurtures, links
Loughner's bizarre fixation on language and grammar to the theories of
a man named David Wynn Miller—or, as he styles himself, :David-Wynn:
Miller. When Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown contacted Miller, he said
he 'absolutely' agreed with Loughner's assertion that 'the government
is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling
grammar.'; Miller told The New York Times that Lougher had 'probably
been on my Web site.'"

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