Why Is Jared Loughner Obsessed With Grammar?

[Albert Rolls]

The ego and his own By Max Stirner (1907 translation, free on Google books). a later translation with "its Own" is available but not from Google books..


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>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jan 10, 2011 5:51 AM
>To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Why Is Jared Loughner Obsessed With Grammar?
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>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.
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>TRP may have alluded to him in that encyclopedic masterpiece Against the
>Day. 
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>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. 
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>----- 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?
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>"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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