{"id":8483,"date":"2013-09-15T20:05:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T20:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/15\/from-the-mail-a-couple-of-anecdotes\/"},"modified":"2013-09-15T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T20:05:24","slug":"from-the-mail-a-couple-of-anecdotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/15\/from-the-mail-a-couple-of-anecdotes\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Mail: A Couple of Anecdotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A. H. writes,<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been following your blog for years, and continue to enjoy it immensely. [I've also had the opportunity to read several of your printed works in the field, which I found to be excellent – your article on states of affairs was particularly outstanding.] <\/span><\/p>\n

I've nothing in particular to offer, other than two anecdotes that I think you'll find amusing:<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) I met a bona fide, genuine Marxist-Trotskyist the other day. Not much more than a boy, alas, though he had drunk the Kool-Aid in toto<\/em>, e.g., dialectical materialism, Trotsky a genius, all information is propaganda, etc., etc. I engaged him for some time just for shits and giggles, until the point at which he tried to (seriously) compare slavery to the position of "the woman" within the domestic family. His view, of course, was ridiculous, backed by the flimsiest of slogans. When it became apparent that he was making little sense, he backed off by saying something to the following effect: "Well, clearly two WHITE MEN need not even be discussing this issue…" Whereupon, I was pleased to recall the Maverick Philosopher, and replied (to a slackened jaw, no less): "My friend, arguments do not have testicles<\/a>." <\/span><\/p>\n

Beautiful. (On a similar note, I took your advice<\/a> a few months back and read TROTSKY:  DOWNFALL OF A REVOLUTIONARY by B. Patenaude – one helluva' read.) <\/span><\/p>\n

(2) Not so long ago, I turned a very close friend of mine – one who shares my philosophical, political and religious predilections and who teaches in the Philosophy Dept. at a private school – onto your blog. He and I occasionally swap emails concerning the content, but the following comment from him (made in relation to, I believe, the Trayvon Martin debacle) I simply had to share with you:
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"If it were possible to baptize the Maverick Philosopher as my uncle, I would pay to do so."<\/span><\/div>\n
Again, I say, beautiful. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A. H. writes, I have been following your blog for years, and continue to enjoy it immensely. [I've also had the opportunity to read several of your printed works in the field, which I found to be excellent – your article on states of affairs was particularly outstanding.] I've nothing in particular to offer, other … Continue reading “From the Mail: A Couple of Anecdotes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-tributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}