It would really help if this hack spelled Saul Alinsky's name correctly.
FWIW, Saul Alinsky said "If you react to criticism, you end up doing everyone's thing but your own.", which became a highly touted piece of American 'culture' when it got hacked around by the media and came to the fore as 'Do your own thing' (...and itf you can't detect the semantic difference you ARE 'American') Which pretty much describes how the 'left' (whatever THAT is) works. React to criticism (as in reactionary), people please, do as little as possible to avoid criticism, criticize others. Bore me. The global climate change deniers bore me. People who brand OTHER people as conspiracy theorist while reading and applying to the current mileu, the side notes of a philosopher who has been dead for over a hundred years (Marxs) bore me. Cockburn bores me. On 6/19/07, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Louis Proyect wrote: > This is from June 7th but I don't think it has been mentioned here yet. > > http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/06/cockburns-form/#more-451 from that source: >The first thing one notices is that Cockburn always tries to shy away from giving the impression he came up with any of his anti-global warming theories himself. In each case, there is a trusted 'advisor' or acquaintance who is available to inform Cockburn of the latest foolishness. In 2001 it was Pierre Sprey "a man knowledgeable about the often disastrous interface between environmental prediction and computer models" and now it is Dr. Martin Hertzberg "a meteorologist for three years in the U.S. Navy". Neither of whom appear to have any peer reviewed work in the field.< FWIW, Cockburn hasn't changed his method, just his madness. It used to be, for example, that he'd quote the excellent radical economist Bob Pollin on economics issues (even though Cockburn doesn't know anything about economics as far as I know). Cockburn used to be a lefty and now his contrarian tendencies seem to be leading him to the right. Did this trend start with his positive attitude toward "wise use" and the like? It'd be interesting to see how and why Alex crossed the line... It's a little like the old leftoid activist Saul Allinsky. Allinsky was all tactics (or strategy) and no theory. Cockburn became all contrariness and no commitment. -- Jim Devine / "if there's an original thought out there, I could use it right now." -- Bob Dylan & Sam Shepherd.
