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(Cliff Huprich) wrote in message . com...
Another winger idiot heard from.
Objecting to free educational programming. On the radio.
Probably in fear that a little education would turn him into a
liberal.

Don't let them win. They so admire the Dark Ages. They may be up
to their old tricks yet again ......

"I do not recommend any legislative action against hermeneutics. I
am a liberal person opposed to all unnecessary state limitation of
individual liberties. Hermeneutics between consenting adults should
not in my view be the object of any statutory restrictions. I know,
only too well, what it would entail. Hermeneutic speakeasies would
spring up all over the place, smuggled Thick Descriptions would be
brought in by the lorry-load from Canada by the Mafia, blood and thick
meaning would clot in the gutter as rival gangs of semiotic
bootleggers slugged it out in a series of bloody shoot-outs and
ambushes. Addicts would be subject to blackmail. Consumptions of deep
meanings and its attendant psychic consequences would in no way
diminsh, but the criminal world would benefit, and the whole fabric of
civil society would be put under severe strain. Never!"

Ernest Gellner
--Anthropology and Politics

Gummer's bound to find wingerblogs to copy ....
--
Cliff