Reply #57: Read any of the bios of Bernay's? You know, Freud's cousin, the ur-ad man.

[arendt]

I'm sure you didn't intend to work in the "belly of the beast" when you started your paper.

MY thesis was about bringing philosophy to "common people" and after laying the foundation, i was in the process of sorting out the modalities to do this (phil in private practice, grade school programs, communitarian initiatives) when an opportunity fell in to my lap to put some of this into action by starting a newspaper -- which i did. dropped out of the graudate program in marxism to sell advertising as it were.

That's real praxis. Good for you.

I bought my wife an Einstein doll, made by the "Itinerant Philosophers' Guild", or some such clever name. I hear that philosophers open bars in the Netherlands. Its a sign of civilization going senile that adults want fart jokes more than they want knowledge. Of course, the pomos give philosophy a bad name. I would personally like to rip out Camille Paglia's tongue.

I will try to remember you interesting background if I ever again find myself believing I could make a difference in this blighted country (DU excepted, and its getting hard to believe I can make a difference here, lately.)

Rural New England might be worth considering, but the climate is getting crazy - violent swings, constantly. Still, lots of good folks out near Amherst, MA (the so-called Pioneer Valley). Big on alternative energy.

arendt