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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. >>