From owner-marxism-international  Thu Apr 17 14:54:16 1997
From: "Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb@jmu.edu>
Subject: M-I: reality as "anecdote"
Message-ID: <SIMEON.9704171409.A@oem-computer.jmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:52:09 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

     Well, the latest silly drivel emanating from the 
buffaloes is this peculiar idea that reality is not to be 
analyzed because it is "merely" an "anecdote," whether it 
is the life experiences of Christi-Ann or the events in 
Zaire, not filtered through some "performance" the 
buffaloes are about perform as they continue to stampede 
across some stage or other in cyberspace (now there's 
ontological reality for you!).
     This reminds me of theoretical economists who dismiss 
as "mere anecdote" examples of real world behavior that 
does not correspond with the assumptions of their arid and 
irrelevant theoretical models.  
     2 questions for the buffaloes:
     1)  Is Shawgi Tell in your cult?  For all his 
zombified Stalinism, he at least seems to have his feet in 
some kind of "anecdotal" reality more than you performers.
     2)  Have you folks been on the leninlist yet?  Adolfo 
Olaechea over there loves to call people on this list 
"fascist dictators."  He also likes to talk about breaking 
peoples' bones one by one.  You might fit right in there, 
except that Adolfo would probably purge and really show you 
what "cyberfascism" is all about...
Barkley Rosser

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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
rosserjb@jmu.edu




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