OT: What is old is new, again.

Sat Aug 28 17:18:26 UTC 2010

Bugs me too because I'm an egghead.  Of course, any use of "deconstruct/ion"
bugs me, because the "philosophy" is an extended joke originally played
on Derrida by one of his constructed selves. (But which one? Our task,
through unpacking, is to show the mystified we can't know. Don't get me
started.)

However, we all know what "de-" means, and we all know what "construct"
means, so the step-by-step extension should come as no surprise.

Thank the nation's English teachers!  (Neocon commentators are probably to
blame too for spotlighting deconstruction in the first place.)

JL

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:14 PM, George Thompson
<george.thompson at nyu.edu>wrote:

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> I notice that Texe-with-an-e is is exposing a plot to "deconstruct"
> America.
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> I found it annoyingly pretentious when  "deconstruct", a technical term in
> an academic fad of the 90s, became simply a synonym for "analyse" or "look
> closely at"; then noted with amusement that it had descended into the
> vocabulary of folks with no interest in academic enthusiasms; and now I see
> that to Texe-with-an-e at least it has come to mean "destroy".
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> GAT
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> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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> From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010 8:46 am
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> > "Texe"? With an "e"?
> >
> > Something un-American here.
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> > JL
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu
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> > > Wilson,
> > >
> > > I'd never heard of Texe Marrs, Author and Researcher, but googling a
> > > snippet of your excerpt, I stumbled across this, which I watched
> > > prompted by the same imp of the perverse which has made me, in the
> > > privacy of untold numbers of hotel rooms of over the past several
> > > decades, watch the Club 700 and the likes of Geraldo, Jerry Springer,
> > > and Rikki Lake:
> > >
> > > http://www.texemarrs.com/rothschilds_choice_promo.htm
> > >
> > > I cannot describe the paroxysms of guilty pleasure I succumbed to
> > > while watching this clip. I'm tempted to "order my copy today!" And
> > I
> > > would, were it not for the fact that my DVD player doesn't play North
> > > American DVDs and that no matter how much pleasure Mr. Marrs gave me
> > > today, I don't really want to line his pockets. On a language note,
> > > let me just say that I hear the cadences of the King James version in
> > > Mr. Marrs' use of that noble word "and."
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > Paul Frank
> > > Translator
> > > German, French, Italian > English
> > > paulfrank at post.harvard.edu
> > > paul.frank at bfs.admin.ch
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Wilson Gray
> > > <wilsongray at ucdavis-alumni.com> wrote:
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> > > > Poster: Ā  Ā  Ā  Wilson Gray <wilsongray at UCDAVIS-ALUMNI.COM>
> > > > Subject: Ā  Ā  Ā OT: What is old is new, again.
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> > > > "Rothschild's Choice: Barack Obama and the Hidden Cabal Behind the
> > > > Plot to Murder America"
> > > >
> > > > The man Rothschild chooses, that man will become President of the
> > > > United States," Texe Marrs [writer, director, and star of this
> > > > cinematic masterpiece] was told by an insider. So, who was
> > > > Rothschild's Choice in 2008? The answer is obvious: Barack Hussein
> > > > Obama!
> > > > The fourth Baron de Rothschild, Lord Jacob Rothschild of Great
> > > > Britain, has been called the 21st Century's "King of Israel." He and
> > > > other Rothschilds preside over the planet's greatest banking cartel,
> > > > and Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, and
> > > > others bow to Rothschild's dictates. Politicians in world capitals,
> > > > Washington, D.C., London, Paris, and Tokyo grovel before their
> awesome
> > > > power.
> > > > Rothschild's Choice documents the astonishing rise of a young,
> > > > half-breed "Prince" of Jerusalem, a Communist adept named Barack
> > > > Obama, who won Rothschilds' favor and was rewarded for his slavish
> > > > devotion to their sinister agenda.
> > > > Here are the revelations that dissolve the mystery of Obama's
> > > > meteoric, virtually unheralded rise to global prominence and his
> > > > elevation to the highest seat of superpower government the White
> > > > House.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Apparently, The International Jew, together with his dusky myrmidons,
> > > > is once more up to Protocolic mischief. When will he ever learn?
> > > >
> > > > BTW, is Minister Farrakhan aware of this blatant betrayal of
> > > > everything that he stands for WRT Jews, I wonder?
> > > >
> > > > OTOH, you gotta give ol' Texe his props for the ease with which he's
> > > > managed to kill two birds with one stone.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > -Wilson
> > > > ā€“ā€“ā€“
> > > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"ā€“ā€“a strange
> complaint
> > > to
> > > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > > > ā€“Mark Twain
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