http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/2005/11/23/does-anyone-else-find-the-ny-times-interview-with-jean-baudrillard-a-little-ironic/ Pensaments of an Anthropological Patzer Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:03:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/2005/11/23/does-anyone-else-find-the-ny-times-interview-with-jean-baudrillard-a-little-ironic/#comment-102 NotSoMuch Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:53:31 +0000 http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/2005/11/23/does-anyone-else-find-the-ny-times-interview-with-jean-baudrillard-a-little-ironic/#comment-102 Eminem is selling iPods on TV now, following behind Bono. The horror. The horror. No one does snooty better than the French and no French people do snooty better than their intellectuals. He has a point and it is good as far as it goes. When it goes all the way to where it is going, it gives me a headache. All de-constructionist theory does that to me. De-constructionist theory is a good tool. It is a mistake to think the tool is the finished product. It is hard to build a house without a hammer but if you told someone that the new theories mean they have to live in a hammer, they would only get a headache trying to figure out what the hell you are trying to say AND they you would not be helping them out with a place to live. And even if I am building a house, I want more than one tool. A hammer is all good but having a screwdriver and a saw and a measuring tape and ... etc etc is all the better. So, I look down my nose on the looking down their noses at me of these French post-de-constructionist-passe-Marxist intellectuals Eminem is selling iPods on TV now, following behind Bono.
The horror. The horror.
No one does snooty better than the French and no French people do snooty better than their intellectuals.
He has a point and it is good as far as it goes. When it goes all the way to where it is going, it gives me a headache. All de-constructionist theory does that to me.
De-constructionist theory is a good tool. It is a mistake to think the tool is the finished product. It is hard to build a house without a hammer but if you told someone that the new theories mean they have to live in a hammer, they would only get a headache trying to figure out what the hell you are trying to say AND they you would not be helping them out with a place to live.
And even if I am building a house, I want more than one tool. A hammer is all good but having a screwdriver and a saw and a measuring tape and … etc etc is all the better.
So, I look down my nose on the looking down their noses at me of these French post-de-constructionist-passe-Marxist intellectuals

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