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Response to: Kissing Cousins (errr, mothers) and Interracial Dating
"This causes me to conclude that since I am not your thing, you don’t see me." Right on the money. "You people" all look (or smell, or eat, or drive, etc. etc.) all alike. Single, I wonder if you have delved any cultural theory dealing with race and gender. It might make you feel better to start with Edward Said (Orientalism) and work your way through to some of our more contemporary theorists of skin color and social response. I have found comfort in reading intellectuals of every hue who deal with these matters in thoughtful ways. I should qualify that I have enjoyed lifelong white privilege, and my background is not easily read in my face or skin color, unless I am deeply tanned in summertime. It still bites like acid. You have probably decided to stay away from threads where oblivious, joyous racism blooms its sickly pale flowers--as have I. There is nothing to teach or learn with many people, whose very identities depend on the description of and even fantasy about some 'other.'— September 22, 2009 4:16 p.m.
Response to: Kissing Cousins (errr, mothers) and Interracial Dating
Hey, quit makin' your other b*****s jealous, refried! :)— September 22, 2009 4:01 p.m.
Home Is Where Cheap Rent Is
"There are like 14,000 translations of the Tao Te Ching. Those translations will pick up the ideology and agendas of the translator." While I appreciate your grasp of the universal, elsabio, does this realization ever lead you to study of particulars? Would you be interested in discussing anything you've picked up in your comparison of translations?— September 22, 2009 3:58 p.m.
Cabs vs. Coach
Nice, PP. Just remember, my people continue to roast the likes of you on a big sharp stick. Slowly, over a good hot fire. Aloha!— September 22, 2009 3:45 p.m.
Home Is Where Cheap Rent Is
On second thought, my post makes it seem as though the goal to lose one's "self" is self-evident (do not pardon the pun--it's useful :). However, my knowledge of the Tao would make of me an "inferior" to "middling" scholar, as you comment, elsabio. When I say you can't escape yourself, I also refer to that concatenation of socio-cultural reflection that makes up who we 'are' as individuals--(and it is always so f'ing funny when people think they are SUCH individuals, or have traveled SO far to escape some unlikely beginning). I'm going to shut up until I finish that article on Tijuana.— September 22, 2009 2:39 p.m.
Home Is Where Cheap Rent Is
Fixed: that's "per se." Sorry, wrote fast. :)— September 22, 2009 2:27 p.m.
Home Is Where Cheap Rent Is
I am not going to try to discount your study, elsabio, because it really doesn't matter what text you choose. You will read your own story, ultimately, as we tend to inscribe more than read. Think of the multiplicity of the word "figure." :) So I will say that personally, to avoid this kind of error of comfort, I choose to read texts as though I'm swimming through a stream--never stopping to feel comfort of the known--except when I compulsively reread or rethink something, like Emily Dickinson or Freud. You can say that I am not escaping your fate, and perhaps that my way of reading is even more prone to unconscious inscription through myself, but then I could throw at you the idea that we are only reflections of culture, and there is no "me" persay anyway. :) Basically, what I'm saying is that everything you think you're finding in the Tao is found in many places--you could find all of this in the writing of one physicist, or in the works of Borges. Just choose your document(s). You're a thoughtful person making connections, though, and you appear to be reading some decent scholarly articles, too. Good deal :)— September 22, 2009 2:27 p.m.
Home Is Where Cheap Rent Is
What exactly does "nonpermission" involve? What can and can't you do? Say, a Marx reading group--would the federales bust in and arrest you?— September 22, 2009 2:57 a.m.
Oxygenated Septuagenarian Robber
Well, it wasn't the oxygen bill. It was--the mortgage. Anyone surprised? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32921104/ns/local_new…— September 22, 2009 2:05 a.m.
Beach Cruisin' for a Bruisin'
Quick! Someone call Animal Control! :)— September 22, 2009 2:01 a.m.