Re: great man theory
Posted by
Steve Smith on
Mar 12, 2021; 7:58pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/great-man-theory-tp7601024p7601041.html
glen -
> OK. But a) I don't think there was any snark in the caricatures. Your perception of it is, I think, an instance of imputation ... aspects of your model being attributed to the words. But, more importantly, b) Yes, of course it's caricature. That's the point.
I don't need to insist that the Snark I found in the lists was
endogenous to the list/list-maker... only the list-maker could now that
for sure and might variously "own the snark" or "deny the snark" or if
your imputation is more accurate simply be "vacant of snark".
> To look at our victims as full-blown humans gets in the way of our progress.
I don't know if Nietzsche said that first but it does seem like it could
be a paraphrase of one of his nihilistic piths.
I am inspired by the anti-Othering movement, it serves my own
recovery/respite from a lifetime of participating in zero-sum
victim/victor games as offered by our popular culture as (sometimes? or
am I imputing again?) "the only game in town".
- steve
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