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                                            November 21, 2007

Another pattern:

Radical thinkers always want
to be Radical, and choose
their ideas to match that
esthetic.


   There may be merit in the
   rhetorical move of saying
   "human thought is not
   wild, it is *beyond wild*"

   But the reason that they
   say this is *largely*
   because they like the          And that's also
   way it sounds --               the reason I
                                  quoted it.
      Taking a line
      like "it's not wild,
      therefore it's
      domesticated" is       (Or the various other moderate
      too dull.               stances-- partially tamed, but
                              only partially.)


Similarly, Bob Black in his attack
on the stultifying qualities of Work
in the western world sneers at mere
reformers who want to make Work suck
a little less.

He prefers sweeping radical attacks
on the whole institution.                          I sometimes think
                                                   of this as "heavy
But in the mean time, wouldn't it                  metal philosophy".
be nice if it sucked a little less?





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