On 5/7/2012 8:40 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Of course musical criticism is political. A negative review from a prominent critic is supposed to have consequences for the career of the musician. Same for restaurant critics, film critics, etc. Part of being a successful critic is being courted by those who seek favorable reviews, and all of them struggle with how much of their integrity is worth to them.
So now you expanded politics to include all activities of civil society. No point arguing with someone to whom words meant whatever they want them to mean.
Brent
Science, as the modern anti-religion, sanctifies political and commercial powers with strategic studies that produce the desired statistics for long enough to secure funding, grants, revolving-door appointments, promotions, etc. Science supplies egalitarian rhetoric and intellectual validation with one face, while it weaponizes technologies and serves authoritarian agendas with the other. It's a huge improvement over Crusades and Inquisitions, to be sure. At least it seems like that from my perspective since I don't have to work in an iPad factory in China. I don't think that it's any less political though. Craig
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