Ted Winslow wrote: > > > To treat the individual as necessarily passively going along with the > "common sense" dominant in their context,
I don't really say that -- that is, I don't see how "a generally positive response to capitalist common sense" adds up in any way to "necessarily passively going along with anything, including capitalist common sense. I would perhaps argue that on the whole it makes sense to go along; who wants to get up every morning and excogitate a funamenaal analysis of the whole uiverse to see whether it's a good morning to brush one's teeth instead of, maybe, seeing if with that really big umbrella one could safely float down from a fourht-story window. And it's an empirical fact that most people most of the time do go along. _Sometimes_ noy only fo some of them noy ho slonh but they carry some others with them, and there's glorious hell to pay. But it doesn't happen very often, and no one has ever succeeded in predicting it in advance. And that is the heart of my politics. Since such occasions must arise and since we can't predict them, we've simply got to keep acting every day as though tomorrow the world was going to wholly unexpectedly exploding on us. That's why Jan and I have trudged along month after month for the last 7 years helping to keep the local anti-war group alive and at least partly functioning. One never knows. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
