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Cheney's views on Foucault, as related by...
Jon Wiener, "Hard To Muzzle: The Return of Lynne Cheney," The Nation,
10/2/00 =20
In 1995 Cheney pulled her complaints together into a book with the
modest title Telling the Truth. Tipper Gore had made her name in
public policy by targeting dirty rock lyrics; the woman who would
succeed her as vice-presidential wife has a loftier target: French
philosopher Michel Foucault, who argued that what we call truth is
constructed by those who hold power. Telling the Truth declares that
Foucault's ideas threaten nothing less than the survival of Western
civilization. "If we are to be successful as a culture," Cheney
writes, we cannot follow Foucault and "turn away from reason and
reality." We must follow the great thinkers of the Enlightenment and
"find the will to live in truth.... The answer may very well
determine whether we survive." Any grad student in cultural studies
would be more than happy to show how her conception of "reason and
reality" is not timeless and universal but rather is shaped by
culture and experience. For Cheney, Foucault's sinister influence is
everywhere. Even Al Gore is a disciple: His book Earth in the
Balance, she writes, "is about how the great thinkers of the
Enlightenment have led us astray." If Foucault is one of the big
targets of her book, feminism is the other. Attacking "the radical
egalitarianism espoused by many feminists," she criticizes "the
movement to do away with...competition in the schools"--for example,
"in every part of the country, school children are dancing and
jumping rope, activities that do not involve competition, instead of
playing games like dodgeball, from which a winner emerges." Obviously
Lynne Cheney was a girl who liked winning at dodgeball. =20
Telling the Truth concludes with what Nick Gillespie of the
libertarian magazine Reason called "a dizzying whirlwind of innuendo
and invective." She argues that the brutal 1994 murder of an
ice-cream vendor in Philadelphia exposes the consequences of leftist
postmodern theory. As the vendor lay dying in the street, a group of
teenage onlookers laughed and danced. Cheney concludes that "people
who laugh at a dying man have no sense that a stranger can suffer
just as they do." And whose fault is this? "Intellectual elites do no
one a favor by sending through society messages that there is no
external reality in which we all participate, that there is only the
game of the moment, the entertainment of the day." Thus postmodernism
may not have killed the ice-cream vendor, but it encouraged the
onlookers to laugh at his suffering. Of course, Lynne Cheney doesn't
know whether the laughing onlookers had read Foucault; in fact, she
knows nothing about them.
Nate
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>In 1995 Cheney pulled her complaints =
together into=20
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her name=20
in<BR>public policy by targeting dirty rock lyrics; the woman who=20
would<BR>succeed her as vice-presidential wife has a loftier target:=20
French<BR>philosopher Michel Foucault, who argued that what we call =
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Western<BR>civilization. "If we are to be successful as a culture,"=20
Cheney<BR>writes, we cannot follow Foucault and "turn away from reason=20
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thinkers of=20
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example,<BR>"in every part of the country, school children are dancing=20
and<BR>jumping rope, activities that do not involve competition, instead =
of<BR>playing games like dodgeball, from which a winner emerges."=20
Obviously<BR>Lynne Cheney was a girl who liked winning at =
dodgeball. =20
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Telling the Truth =
concludes with=20
what Nick Gillespie of the<BR>libertarian magazine Reason called "a =
dizzying=20
whirlwind of innuendo<BR>and invective." She argues that the brutal 1994 =
murder=20
of an<BR>ice-cream vendor in Philadelphia exposes the consequences of=20
leftist<BR>postmodern theory. As the vendor lay dying in the street, a =
group=20
of<BR>teenage onlookers laughed and danced. Cheney concludes that =
"people<BR>who=20
laugh at a dying man have no sense that a stranger can suffer<BR>just as =
they=20
do." And whose fault is this? "Intellectual elites do no<BR>one a favor =
by=20
sending through society messages that there is no<BR>external reality in =
which=20
we all participate, that there is only the<BR>game of the moment, the=20
entertainment of the day." Thus postmodernism<BR>may not have killed the =
ice-cream vendor, but it encouraged the<BR>onlookers to laugh at his =
suffering.=20
Of course, Lynne Cheney doesn't<BR>know whether the laughing onlookers =
had read=20
Foucault; in fact, she<BR>knows nothing about them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Nate</FONT></DIV>
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Cheney's views on Foucault, as related by...
Jon Wiener, "Hard To Muzzle: The Return of Lynne Cheney," The Nation,
10/2/00 =20
In 1995 Cheney pulled her complaints together into a book with the
modest title Telling the Truth. Tipper Gore had made her name in
public policy by targeting dirty rock lyrics; the woman who would
succeed her as vice-presidential wife has a loftier target: French
philosopher Michel Foucault, who argued that what we call truth is
constructed by those who hold power. Telling the Truth declares that
Foucault's ideas threaten nothing less than the survival of Western
civilization. "If we are to be successful as a culture," Cheney
writes, we cannot follow Foucault and "turn away from reason and
reality." We must follow the great thinkers of the Enlightenment and
"find the will to live in truth.... The answer may very well
determine whether we survive." Any grad student in cultural studies
would be more than happy to show how her conception of "reason and
reality" is not timeless and universal but rather is shaped by
culture and experience. For Cheney, Foucault's sinister influence is
everywhere. Even Al Gore is a disciple: His book Earth in the
Balance, she writes, "is about how the great thinkers of the
Enlightenment have led us astray." If Foucault is one of the big
targets of her book, feminism is the other. Attacking "the radical
egalitarianism espoused by many feminists," she criticizes "the
movement to do away with...competition in the schools"--for example,
"in every part of the country, school children are dancing and
jumping rope, activities that do not involve competition, instead of
playing games like dodgeball, from which a winner emerges." Obviously
Lynne Cheney was a girl who liked winning at dodgeball. =20
Telling the Truth concludes with what Nick Gillespie of the
libertarian magazine Reason called "a dizzying whirlwind of innuendo
and invective." She argues that the brutal 1994 murder of an
ice-cream vendor in Philadelphia exposes the consequences of leftist
postmodern theory. As the vendor lay dying in the street, a group of
teenage onlookers laughed and danced. Cheney concludes that "people
who laugh at a dying man have no sense that a stranger can suffer
just as they do." And whose fault is this? "Intellectual elites do no
one a favor by sending through society messages that there is no
external reality in which we all participate, that there is only the
game of the moment, the entertainment of the day." Thus postmodernism
may not have killed the ice-cream vendor, but it encouraged the
onlookers to laugh at his suffering. Of course, Lynne Cheney doesn't
know whether the laughing onlookers had read Foucault; in fact, she
knows nothing about them.
Nate
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Jon Wiener, “Hard To Muzzle: The =
Return of Lynne=20
Cheney,” The Nation,<BR>10/2/00 </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>In 1995 Cheney pulled her complaints =
together into=20
a book with the<BR>modest title Telling the Truth. Tipper Gore had made =
her name=20
in<BR>public policy by targeting dirty rock lyrics; the woman who=20
would<BR>succeed her as vice-presidential wife has a loftier target:=20
French<BR>philosopher Michel Foucault, who argued that what we call =
truth=20
is<BR>constructed by those who hold power. Telling the Truth declares=20
that<BR>Foucault's ideas threaten nothing less than the survival of=20
Western<BR>civilization. "If we are to be successful as a culture,"=20
Cheney<BR>writes, we cannot follow Foucault and "turn away from reason=20
and<BR>reality." We must follow the great thinkers of the Enlightenment=20
and<BR>"find the will to live in truth.... The answer may very =
well<BR>determine=20
whether we survive." Any grad student in cultural studies<BR>would be =
more than=20
happy to show how her conception of "reason and<BR>reality" is not =
timeless and=20
universal but rather is shaped by<BR>culture and experience. For Cheney, =
Foucault's sinister influence is<BR>everywhere. Even Al Gore is a =
disciple: His=20
book Earth in the<BR>Balance, she writes, "is about how the great =
thinkers of=20
the<BR>Enlightenment have led us astray." If Foucault is one of the=20
big<BR>targets of her book, feminism is the other. Attacking "the=20
radical<BR>egalitarianism espoused by many feminists," she criticizes=20
"the<BR>movement to do away with...competition in the schools"--for=20
example,<BR>"in every part of the country, school children are dancing=20
and<BR>jumping rope, activities that do not involve competition, instead =
of<BR>playing games like dodgeball, from which a winner emerges."=20
Obviously<BR>Lynne Cheney was a girl who liked winning at =
dodgeball. =20
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Telling the Truth =
concludes with=20
what Nick Gillespie of the<BR>libertarian magazine Reason called "a =
dizzying=20
whirlwind of innuendo<BR>and invective." She argues that the brutal 1994 =
murder=20
of an<BR>ice-cream vendor in Philadelphia exposes the consequences of=20
leftist<BR>postmodern theory. As the vendor lay dying in the street, a =
group=20
of<BR>teenage onlookers laughed and danced. Cheney concludes that =
"people<BR>who=20
laugh at a dying man have no sense that a stranger can suffer<BR>just as =
they=20
do." And whose fault is this? "Intellectual elites do no<BR>one a favor =
by=20
sending through society messages that there is no<BR>external reality in =
which=20
we all participate, that there is only the<BR>game of the moment, the=20
entertainment of the day." Thus postmodernism<BR>may not have killed the =
ice-cream vendor, but it encouraged the<BR>onlookers to laugh at his =
suffering.=20
Of course, Lynne Cheney doesn't<BR>know whether the laughing onlookers =
had read=20
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Nate</FONT></DIV>
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