Re: Alienation"?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Bousquet wrote:
>
> --- Ian Murray <seamus2001@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > [clip] the Hobbesian realm manifests itself
> > -even in a post-Westphalian sense.
>
> Yep, that'll convince the boys down at the tavern...
> I'll whip that sucker out at half-time and we'll have
> world peace by the end of the third quarter.
>

Tim, you would not sneer at a production line worker in an ammunition
plant for being a poor marksman; nor would you sneer at the engineer who
designed the rifle for not being in the front lines firing it. But that
is what you are doing in this [non-]critique of Ian. From some of Ian's
posts I gather that he has done important work in organizing and
agitating for the Seattle Movement -- but frankly it would be as silly
for him to use the same language on this list as it would be for the
engineer to say, the hell with it, let's use the old weapons and I'm off
to the front.

Pen-L is an engineering lab, not the local tavern.

Carrol