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the relation "human nature" as stable/transcendent--natural hierarchies as structuring the world, including the effects of capitalism---blaming the poor for social inequalities (for example) seems to me to follow in a straight line. i dont buy any of it. and i do not understand how anyone would, because it leads you into positions that are really appalling if you shift them from intellectual experiments carried out sitting in front of a computer in the comfort of your home to something that could possibly inform how policy works. it would lead to jusitifcations for a thoroughly barbaric social order. it would lead you to argue that for example shitty health care afforded to the children of the poor would be fine because the poor deserve their lot---something like this came up earlier in the thread, two pages or so back, and i agreed with smooth when he laid it out.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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