Re: MD Noam Chomsky

From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 21 2004 - 18:42:50 BST

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    Hi Gav

    Thanks for that, I also recently picked up that the Sits
    had some interesting ideas that related to MOQ.

    regards
    David M

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "gav" <gav_gc@yahoo.com.au>
    To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 9:13 AM
    Subject: Re: MD Noam Chomsky

    > hey mark,
    >
    > first let me lay my cards on the table:
    > i think chomsky is invaluable. he is a brave, honest,
    > accurate and insightful critic of western hegemony.
    >
    > but i think you see where i was coming from anyway; ie
    > his SOMness makes it difficult for chomsky to get to
    > the roots of our troubles, which makes progress more
    > difficult.
    >
    > politically speaking, the situationists and may 68
    > came closest to a Quality breakthrough (interestingly
    > there is a bertolucci film out now called 'the
    > dreamers' about may 68, anyone see it?). in the 70s
    > the sits faded away with many of the central thinkers
    > moving to zen buddhism.
    >
    > the sits viewed things from the situation: instead of
    > subjects experiencing objects, they saw unified
    > experience (a situation), of which the individual was
    > an integral part. the sits were not SOM (hence the
    > inordinate power of their work, i believe).
    >
    > chomsky is very important in that he increases
    > awareness of our realpolitikal situation. and in doing
    > so he increases the desire, the momentum towards
    > something better. he is therefore complementary to any
    > work that maps out paths to this better world. the moq
    > is one of these paths.
    >
    > so what i guess i am saying is that, yes, i agree :-)
    >
    > cheers
    > gav
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