FS & Praxis

[matthew piscioneri]

Bob,

maybe:

>You and JH and Plato want
>to elide poetry, go to bed with positive science, and conceive a 
>head->birth
>morality; all because you fear that story is the devil in the machine.

Anyway, what's the alternative? Sitting around weaving baskets under the 
full moon being swayed over by the medicine man? Contemporary pragmatism 
doesn't so much fear that story is the devil in the machine. Recognises that 
story persists, and tries to change a few beginnings and endings in the hope 
that some benefit might be brought to:

>the poor suckers of the earth who
>don't get saved by an oxford professorship?
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I usually drink a lot. What do you do?:

>just how does one be "resigned"
>at the victimization of the other?
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Yes but what about the linking of poetry to domination that is part of the 
problem. It wasn't just corporate America that has bombed Iraq. There is a 
web of interests including the existential/material interests of the "poor 
suckers" which isn't recognised by broad brush stroked dualisms. Sorry to 
say for us, it's not just Apollo v. Dionysus making those tanks rumble. Far 
easier if it was.

>Interest, real or illusory, not poetry is the devil.  And interest
>is cognate with power in nature.  In contrast, the republic of dogs and 
>rats
>is without poetry; and the degree of difference with our species is exactly
>the marginal effect of metafor/fisic.

Regards,

mattP.

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