Once again I took it for granted everyone knew it was only Vol. II which
Marx offered to Darwin. On boredom, I would add it is not something
which we experience during tedious work only, but when we have
"nothing to do". It is also a time when we do more than we realize;
in the broken bits of thought we have, we are actually thinking about
new possibilities, or trying to resolve issues/difficulties. So
boredom is good for you; it is also an alternative to the "do it"
mentality of our society.
> since when do we let mere boredom stand in our way? Boredom seems part of
> life and work, something that everybody (except the very rich and some
> dilettantes, that is) cannot avoid. Boredom seems part and parcel of
> necessary labor, something that won't be abolished for a long time. Some
> might say that without boredom, we couldn't appreciate non-boredom, but I
> wouldn't go that far.
>
> I don't find CAPITAL to be boring at all, especially because I read the
> footnotes, where Marx lets down his hair (i.e., his scientific pretensions)
> and lets his venom and wit flow. In any event, the boredom involved in
> CAPITAL should be compared to the boredom of the normal academic treatise
> with its excessive pedantry and caution. In terms of the benefits received
> from digging through its tedium, CAPITAL wins hands down.
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
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