Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-standing interest in the area where the academic world meets the world of politics and the world of journalism. I have especially raised questions previously about what is produced in the social sciences, by some people and how this production affects "politics." This political motivation does not mean that I support some wing over another wing, say the left wing over the right wing, or that I support some "ism" ideology like socialism, communism or capitalism. I understand "politics" to mean in the broad sense how one deals with social organizations, how we arrive at decisions concerning society...
...that A=BC=BDE=BDFG, i.e., that "social mobilization is equal to economic development times mobility opportunities times political institutionalization times political instability"? And Koblitz remarks: "Huntington's use of equations produces effects--mystification, intimidation, an impression of precision and profundity..." Huntington fails to define just what these terms mean, or how he dealt with them quantitatively. In particular, how is one to take the sentence: "The overall correlation between frustration and instability was .50." What is the meaning of the two significant figures...
...drive 55. But then again, I probably couldn't drive 65 either. That congressmen have made the offer doesn't mean the states have to take them...
...argument. Greaves and Rader argue that romantic self-effacement "is systematically linked" to the violation of a woman who is raped, because "both are results of a culture which condones the subjugation of women." Exactly what systematic link is being postulated here? A causal one? Surely they don't mean to say that women who "forget themselves" romantically are more likely to be raped or harassed. The continuing violence against women indicates--among other things--an irrational fear of powerful women, an obsession with this subject, a fear which is constantly felt and must just as constantly be escaped...
...common, species. We can't deny it, dude, it's all so large, you know. Larger than us all, even larger than that big splotch on your head. Heh heh. A little joke there, dude. But seriously, why bother with the whole artificial death scene, man, I mean in the end it's all the same, right? I'm for just hanging loose, dude, like playing it fully casual--I say let's place a moratorium on doomsday machines, and then divert funds meant for the Defense Department to the Grateful Dead. You in, dude...