Chris Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 06:00 -0500, Bob Grumman wrote:
>
> Ha, Bob, thanks for this comment. It is as if Freud's anxiety neurosis
> explains, many thanks for the suggestion. The vertical structure of US
> culture fits in nicely with this. Thanks again.
>
Not sure what you mean, Chris--but your mention of Freud made me want to
restate my position, which is now: "scientific materialism, sanely used,
is the only way effectively to explain things," Freud, whom I do
consider a scientific materialist, wasn't always wrong, but he was wrong
more often than right.
--Bob
>
>
>> Not in my American experience as a person who believes that
>> scientific
>> materialism is the only way to explain things, although there are
>> other
>> effective ways to understand things, which is different. I find that
>> it's simply old C P Snow's two cultures. Artists, particularly
>> poets,
>> are generally impervious to rationality.
>>
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