Pickled Cucumber?

[Peters, Mike [HES]]

US forces are currently engaged in conquering Iraq, and you people are
wittering about cucumbers, and debating whether ASS press-spoofs qualify as
spam or not. I was hoping the 'Frankfurt School' list would be a forum for
more genuinely critical discussion of the implications. It's very depressing
that 'critical' now  just seems to mean personal abuse conducted in a
sophomor(on)ic manner. Don't you realise the magnitude of global protest
against this war? It's bigger than the anti-Vietnam War protests, or have
you succumbed to the US media's blackout? This is a sincere appeal to come
to your senses.  
Mike Peters

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	matthew piscioneri [SMTP:mpiscioneri@hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:17 PM
> To:	frankfurt-school@lists.village.virginia.edu
> Subject:	Re: Pickled Cucumber?
> 
> Guys,
> 
> This exchange is juvenile in the extreme. Why not conduct it off-list? Why
> 
> am I concerned? For purely selfish reasons. It may drive subscribers off
> the 
> list from whom I can learn. It is totally demeaning to yourselves and to 
> other subscribers.
> 
> MattP.
> 
> >MS. Pickled Cucumber?
> >
> >No. If you were a woman and gave yourself the sobriquet, Pickled
> >Cucumber, you'd have to have a sense of humor---or be Karen Finley. In
> >which case you might like to size yourself for Ralphalfa's 'grapefruits
> >of purpose.' CP
> >
> >pickled cucumber wrote:
> >
> > > Mr. Brennan, you chose to monologue to me the aphorism:
> > >
> > > "Obesity is the opiate of the American intellectual..."
> > >
> > > The aphorism is quite endearing, but as it stands, it seems somewhat
> > > - how shall I put it? - denuded.  Is there any foundation for it?
> > > The term "American intellectual" brings to mind, randomly, people
> > > like Mills, Dewey, Whitman, William James, Cage, Thoreau, DuBois.
> > > Could you perhaps elaborate on how it is that obesity is claimed to
> > > be - or have been - their common opiate?  Assuming, of course, that
> > > you do not share Mr. Parcelli's view that intellectual honesty
> > > forbids one from responding cogently to pickled cucumbers.
> > >
> > > PC
> > >
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