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Re: somersault



> The resident agitator said:
> 
> >how dare you accuse me of such a  thing, academic indeed.  i maybe an
> >elitist imperialist but never an academic.
> 
> I am an academic.  Let me go to work on this for a minute.
> 
> "Elitist" in the sense of thinking only one set of ideas is correct.
> 
> "Imperialist" in the sense of thinking that those ideas should be forced
> upon the world.
> 
> But how interesting that this is to be a "liberal" statement. 
> Imperialism is inherently conservative, afraid of the chaos of
> polyvocality and democracy.  Even if you argue that a liberal can be
> 
    you just wanted to say polyvocality! -tc from austin

imperialist about being progressive, you end up with some logical
> somersaults going on.  And so an interesting thing: I object to right
> wing attempts to legislate morality; and I object to left wing attempts
> to legislate their morality, too.  And they are both conservative.  
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> Over the Rhine is a good band,
> 
> Fred
> 
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