NP - New Speedway

[Ian Livingston]

Oh, dear, not the old -ism scare. Add a suffix denoting an action or
its result and you have a worldview?

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:37 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
>
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant