Not overtly P. if interested, some analysis of American politics

[Michael Bailey]

But the gist of Mill (grist of mill?) on censorship was basically let all
viewpoints be heard including wrong ones and truth will emerge supreme
(truth in everlast shorts holding up a boxing gloved hand, "the winner, and
new champeen")
On Dec 18, 2012 11:54 AM, "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Not too easily since the liers never/seldom admit wrong.  As this guy
> reminds using Mill, his vision of public dialogue
> was that self-correcting kind you speak of. Gone in many fora.
>
>   *From:* Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> *To:* P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:24 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Not overtly P. if interested, some analysis of American
> politics
>
> It's funny, though...lies are deliberately false information but there is
> also incomplete information, wrong theories, and wrong assumptions in any
> discussion so a robust discussion needs to correct for these things to be
> any good, and the presence of a few or many lies can also be adjusted for,
> right?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  and society via Mill and Freud and Arendt. Summary: Mill's public space
> of
> discussion to go back-and-forth now virutally gone since lies played no
> role in his
> argument. A lie-based group creates deep problems for aim-inhibited
> neurotics--
> the major other Group.
>
> Freudian metaphors remind me of the N.O.Brown, early Pynchon strain of
> seeing History.
>
> And newly-defined 'socialism' from the Left.
>
> http://nplusonemag.com/politicopsychopathology
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>
> --
> - where the bee sucks, there suck I
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