NP - New Speedway

[alice wellintown]

When we review the intellectual history of the 19th century in
panorama, we cannot help but be struck by the enormous profusion of
ideologies that century managed to produce: Liberalism, conservatism,
Marxism, Darwinism, Positivism, idealism, Hegelianism, socialism,
Owenism, anarchism, communism, Romanticism and the list seems to go on
and on. I would suggest that the proliferation of these -isms, of
these grandiose systems, was the product of an age in which
intellectual life had become much more complex and intense. And there
are several reasons for this complexity and intensity.

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture23a.html


On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Tom Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:
> P-listers (or anyone) should be skeptical of any word ending in -ism that is
> used as a marker for how the world works. Ideologies lead to magical
> thinking.
>
> (Marx was great at describing, terrible at prescribing.)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "alice wellintown"
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 2:52 PM
> Subject: Re: NP - New Speedway
>
>
>>> Just fyi, I stand far to the left of Marx.
>>
>> Marx is not Left or Right. Of course, what you mean is that you are
>> Left of anything short of Anarchy. That's why you my hero.
>>
>> And you know what they say,
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK_hftXn4dk&feature=related
>
>