Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
For every action, there is an opposing and unequal overreaction.
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 12:10 AM
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I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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Leftism, possibly taking its cue from Derridean and Foucauldian postmodernism, with its obsessive focus on power dynamics (itself a riff off Nietzsche), seems to traffic in just such asymmetries: for example, an oppressed minority can use the N-word, but never someone of the majority race—not even when quoting, and not even in meta-humoristic jest. To do so is to provoke something like the "opposing and unequal overreaction" you speak of.
That's why I never complain, never explain. And I have to do this all the time! What a grind! Oh, never mind!
Jeffery Hodges
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I am reminded of I.A. Richards' essay in which he draws a distinction between emotional and intellectual belief.
Interestingly enough, I was working today on the problem of emotional belief for my blog, when I then came across your post. Please click HERE.
. . . stranded in the sands of time.
Jeffery Hodges
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Don't forgot to bring sunblock!
It's burnt to a cinder block by now.
Jeffery Hodges
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