Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

[cfabel]

Is it, do you think, dignity and respect that people seek under the rubric
"freedom?"?

C. F. Abel
Chair
Department of Government
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas 75962
(936) 468-3903




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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Paul Mackin
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 3:51 PM
To: cfabel; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

On 5/16/2011 3:15 PM, cfabel wrote:
> Is this a human need, do you think? I often wonder if people really 
> want the kind of freedom they would have without one.

I don't think many people would want to live completely free of authority.
You don't know what you might do.

Or what others might do to you.

In Pynchon's Vineland, the youth were afraid of freedom.  Brock Vond's
secret insight.

Living alone,  which is something I've had to do on occasion,  provides a
gain in freedom of sorts which can be downright scary.  what's to keep you
from turning into a complete slob? What if the roof leaks.  Will you get it
fixed without someone nagging you about it ?  I wouldn't and didn't.

P
> C. F. Abel
> Chair
> Department of Government
> Stephen F. Austin State University
> Nacogdoches, Texas 75962
> (936) 468-3903
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> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On 
> Behalf Of Paul Mackin
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:01 PM
> To: cfabel; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden
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> On 5/16/2011 1:32 PM, cfabel wrote:
>> On its current trajectory, it will topple itself.
> Like the Roman Empire, though Gibbon blamed Christianity,  which in 
> any event assumed whatever political authority there was to be for a 
> few centuries.
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> One powerful institution replaces another.
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>> C. F. Abel
>> Chair
>> Department of Government
>> Stephen F. Austin State University
>> Nacogdoches, Texas 75962
>> (936) 468-3903
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Michael Bailey
>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 12:24 PM
>> To: P-list
>> Subject: Re: Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden
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>>    Paul Mackin wrote:
>>> I advise making the best of the empire we have now  because to 
>>> topple it would require an even more powerful and bloody one.
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>> as they used to say in The Mother Earth News before a timely quote on 
>> the last page, "Let the men and women of wisdom speak!"
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