Absolutely, Dominic, & your commentary seems just.
I've noticed that not one of those of us 'defending' Pound has argued
that he was anything other than blind, a crank, etc in his political
views. Nevertheless, for many practitoners, _The Pound Era_ is the
correct title....
And, interestingly, in his finest moments, what he 'knew' was exactly
not what he thought he wanted to 'know,'
Doug
On 3-Apr-08, at 6:04 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> > "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who /*insist/*
> on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
>
> The words that cause the trouble here are I suppose "real" and
> "knowing". People want to be educated for many other reasons besides
> wanting to become "knowers", in Pound's particular sense. Educating
> people to know the kinds of things Pound thought he knew, in the
> ways in which he thought he knew them, is at most a small part of
> education (one could argue that the "really" educated are those who
> have been brought to the realisation that such things are not
> altogether knowable in such ways).
>
> For Pound it appears that the function of knowing is to distinguish
> oneself from "sheep". Again, this is crank territory. Only the crank
> is enlightened; everyone else is a willing dupe. Dupe of whom? For
> some reason, the answer almost always seems to be, in one form or
> another, "the Jews".
>
> Dominic
>
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