IMO Gibson ain't Pynchon by a long shot

[Joseph Tracy]

I could see this argument coming. Not ready to take the bait. Fine if Gibson speaks to you. For me there is nothing revelatory and of course I considered the line of thinking you put forth here. 

 You have a habit of putting words in a person's mouth and here even putting them in quotes. Who exactly wrote or said this quote?  As far as blinded by idealism. Just depends on what ideals . One could get a pretty harsh response on the p-list with homophobic, or anti semitic or anti science or pro-science or racist talk. So maybe you could define your terms here.   

Maybe we just have different tastes, different structural and  metaphoric preferences, even different ideals.   



On Sep 26, 2013, at 6:12 AM, Monte Davis wrote:

> JT> [Gibson is] overly obsessed with fashion to the point of seeing fashion
> sense as a kind of moral force and profound insight.
> 
> The same mental and social processes of emulation, alignment, evaluation -- 
> 
> "What are those around me doing?"
> "What confers approval and status, what is deprecated?"
> "What explains the discrepancies between the 'is' I see and the 'ought' I'm
> taught?"
> 
> are at work in the oldest Deep Moral Forces and the most transient fashion.
> To say "religion, philosophy and psychology are about eternal verities;
> marketing and advertising are about market-driven trivia" is to blind
> oneself with idealism -- and in my experience, to make oneself more rather
> than less easily manipulated by the latter. 

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