Monday, February 26, 2007  Behold, a Tangled Web!  Here is a
highly recommended addition to your course work at the
University of Self-Education. It is the seminal essay by Herbert
Marcuse entitled Repressive Tolerance. This work is said by many
to be the intellectual fountainhead of what is termed "political
correctness." Reading it, one sees why. It was published in
1965, and it appears to lay the foundation for later
construction by the various deconstructionists and
postmodernists - you know, Derrida and all that crowd. This
material will be 'old hat' for many of you, but for others it
will be fresh, illuminating, even dazzling in the range of
insight which it affords:  The link below will download the full
text as a PDF file:  I notice that the file is hosted on a
server at Evergreen State College, in Olympia, WA., USA. Maybe
some of you know something about the reputation of Evergreen!
But as I see it, the central difficulty inherent to this
ideology is that it contains no built-in guarantee that the p