On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, James Michael Craven wrote: > I wonder how many working class women or women on Reservations could > relate to or understand the rhetoric in the example of Butler's > writings given in the Doublespeak award? I suspect few if any. So what? Are all those scientists who use mathematical tools noone else understands just wasting their time? Are people who read foreign languages we can't read indulging in nonsense? If Butler claimed to speak for the people on the Rez, then you could slam her for yakking away. But she's not. Writers don't just write to be understood; they write for the future readers who may someday understand what they were trying to say. Adorno said somewhere that the only thoughts worth thinking are those which do not fully understand themselves, i.e. do something new and unexpected, which hasn't yet fully emerged into its content, and is therefore open to history and dialectics. -- Dennis
