Hey Ian,
> First joining up the comment of Krim's you responded to here, with our
> "siding with Bush" discussion in the other thread.
> Krim made the distinction here : "the differences between not what but
> how liberals think".
> The "what" is the specific immediate tactical situation, the "how" is
> the strategic rhetorical process.
I think you're right to see the parallel, but I think wrong to
strictly assimilate them in this way. The distinctions of
tactics/strategy and what/how are definitely parallel, but
the what/how I was discussing with Krimel, I think, is at a
different level some of the time. For instance, wondering
about what we should talk to with other people, "the what"
or "the how"? That's a tactical curiosity, which makes the
what/how subsumed underneath the tactics half of the
tactics/strategy.
We can alter the relationships between the two distinctions
to generate different questions, but to just assimilate
"tactics" to "what" is blur away the possibility of wondering
(in a confusion of levels to make my point) tactically useful
to talk about tactics.
Matt
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