RE: Adorno on TV

[Ralph Dumain <rdumain@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for you efforts in all these posts, Matt.  I don't mean to be
supercilious all the time.

At 10:46 PM 6/4/99 -0700, Matthew Levy wrote:
>do you still think this?  REALLY????  you remind me here in some
>ways of my roommate, who told me as a child he had a fantasy of
>floating in a bubble, alone, high over Pluto, staring into the
>depths of space.  This
>may be a kind of psychology that I will never really understand.

That dream reminds me of a very bizarre dream I had while still in the
crib.  I dreamt I was up in the clouds with God(?), looking down on the
earth below.  Awaiting my next reincarnation, perhaps?

>i find this fascinating as a document of your psychology, but
>totally baffling as an attempt at communication.  And don't tell
>me that this is due to my limited life experience ... sounds to me
>like you're just plain weird.

If only you knew ... but this question of thought viz. social
relations--it's a big question, and I came to some drastic conclusions
about it in the summer of 1997, but this is a long story.  But be assured
I'm working on a more coherent account of these ideas.

>seems to cast everything else we've been discussing into "radical
>doubt" ... you believe in lone wolf autodidacticism, yet you were
>just talking
>about raising children.  in what reality can you reconcile these?

Tell you what.  You need to see a children's movie called HARRIET THE SPY.
It is magnificent and embodies my philosophy.

>Chomsky wants to restore the Cartesian faith that
>reason transcends culture

I think Chomsky overextended himself in the extrapolation of his
philosophical views from his linguistic theory, but this sentence of yours
gives me such a hard-on.  You can't be against Descartes without being for
fascism.  Too bad Chomsky has no concept of social science and is utterly
clueless about Marx.