> Date sent: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:55:11 -0400 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PEN-L:576] Re: Re: What are we doing here > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sometimes I say to myself--no offense to anybody on PEN-L--that scholarship > is only meaningful if you don't get paid for it. Who cares if you get paid > to read De Cecco, if it is part of getting ahead. > > I am afraid that one of the reasons that there is so little discussion on > PEN-L is that most people regard this type of discussion as part of their > job and who wants to talk about their job. It would be like me and Bill > discussing the merits of Perl versus Apache if we got together in Austin, > rather than ecology, socialism and indigenous societies. As we did. > > Sometimes I think the worst thing about the academy is the tendency it has > to dull one's appetite for the very subjects one is professionally involved > with. > Oh, I thought this time of crisis was bringing out the best in pen-l. Guess the party is over. It is not scholarship but economics which is increasingly meaningless. How long can one keep one's passions high if figures are the issues, marxist numbers or not? Besides, teaching standard economics day in day out must be boring as hell. Marxist? Are we not in a state of rapid diminishing intellectual returns? How long can Marx survive without philosophy? ricardo > > (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html) > >
