Heidegger

On 06/06/2006, at 1:22 AM, Anthony Crifasi wrote:

> If you notice above, I said that the other ones were *not* my
> criteria for
> anti-Americanism (”Nope, all wrong”). Please make the above one the
> only one
> for me.

Okay sorry, got a million things on the go at once, here’s:

A Preliminary Draft of the Principles of American Proscription -
Revision 1

Anthony’s proposal:

1. Relativize and distract

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a conspicuous refusal to use any examples of “murder, rape and
dispossession” in an “amoral” discussion except ones relating to United
States foreign policy and its allies, when there are plenty of other
undisputed examples of such (e.g., Congo) that would serve the
purposes of
such an amoral discussion just fine.
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That Pete’s proposal:

1. Shock and Awe as liberation from tyranny

> There you go again. You describe liberation from tyranny as bombing
> to the ground, so I question what grounds your truth.

2. Old Hippies

> Neil’s been a US citizen for some decades. I’m very fond of some of
> his stuff, I liked the use of irony on his latest album (something
> noticeably lacking in most of the antiwar crowd), but, like, Neil’s
> still a hippie, man.

3. Enemy succour

> But just because (1) they’re american, and (2) they’re anti-american,
> they can provide foreign haters with an excuse for their anti-
> americanism.

4. anti-Intellectualism

> You only have to read anything recent by say Chomsky or Vidal, to
> realise
> they’re clowns.

5. US intellectual superiority

> Yet they’re regularly voted as top intellectuals in
> places with intellectual pretensions like Europe. It just goes to
show
> the lie dream of the anti-american scene. Wake up! All Europe’s
useful
> intellectuals have moved stateside. That’s why its called a brain
> drain.

6. Dismiss the old guard

> No comment. I’ve never heard of him. Perhaps he should move abroad
> where he might stand out and attract attention as an intellectual.

7. Reject scientific authority

> You’re appealing to the authority of psychiatrists on a Heidegger
> list?

8. Reject 911 demolition

> Right after they dynamited the WTC…yawn.

9. Maintain the belief in democratic elections

> I don’t think the North Americans proscribe anything. They’re merely
> pointing out the cracks in various dialectics. That’s where the
> light gets in.

10. Discount what cannot be denied

> And I’d add, as someone with some involvement in tech, the abilities
> of software, and government agencies, to make sense of massive
amounts
> of data is highly exaggerated.

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Dr Malcolm Riddoch
Electronic Arts
School of Communications and Contemporary Arts
Faculty of Communications and Creative Industries
Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley
Perth Western Australia
+61 08 9370 6034

Posted on Monday, June 5th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
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