What is mental masturbation anyway? I don`t know if I am really getting
a frousy odour of anti-intellectualism and cyncism here- in this"
psychobabble"
and so-call "mental masturbation" sarcasm coming from R.A.Hettinga-whose
seems to have taken a gleeful delight in trying to beat down the life of
ideas in
human thought.
I have not been part of this discussion but I have been on and off reading
the
posts. Finally I had to ask what is mental masturbation as oppose to other
forms of onanism.
I am old enough to remember during the 60`s the conservative and rightwing
politicians
and others used to call academics and intellectuals pointy heads. ala Barry
Goldwater, and the
then mayor of Chicago Mayor John Daley.
with
friendly greetings Gil Tucker
----- Original Message -----
From: R. A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: Nietzsche as the G�del of Philosophy
>
> At 10:52 AM -0600 on 2/8/00, Our token socialist paradox from Texas wrote:
>
>
> > Productivity consists of self-
> > actualization. Mental masturbation doesn't actualize anything.
>
> Actually, "self actualization", and other such psychobabble, *is* mental
> masturbation, and, even if it wasn't, still wouldn't "actualize" a thing
at
> all.
>
> Sheesh.
>
> Cheers,
> RAH
> (Who, yes, Matilda, knows who Maslow was...)
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> "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
> [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
> experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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