I have suddenly begun receiving dozens of messages from FaceBook informing me that a post has tagged me [do I have that right?] I think this flurry was triggered by my scandalous comments about Israel, but the "messages" in the e-mails are a string of question marks, because my e-mail provider does not recognize Hebrew letters. When I go to FaceBook [which I virtually never frequent] and click on the "translate" utility, somewhat garbled references to Post-Modernism come back, but that has nothing to do with what I wrote.
The foolish residents of the town of Babel have a lot to answer for.
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i had a look. it's not about your recent israel remarks. it's an essay by david pilavin, who says he corresponded with you a few years ago, about political dissonance. you are used as an illustration of a radical leftist whose cultural tastes and practices (liking baroque music, preferring kant to modern philosophy, travelling to paris, disparaging rednecks etc.) would seem to mark him as a republican. he says that in his correspondence with you, he suggested you were an elitist for being dismissive of non-elite universities, and you declared that you are an open and avowed elitist.
i didn't read all the way to the end, but that's what it starts out about, at any rate. the title is "an upside-down world i saw; on dissonances right and left." there are dozens of comments, which is probably why you got many notifications.
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