hey joseph, yeah sorry i didn't get back quicker to this, i'm always doing that - getting near overwhelmed with the need to find an answer, and then getting distracted and kinda disappointed that i don't know it yet / giving up. hah is that stupidity. let me read what you've said...

yeah that's interesting, i always like reading your comments etc. though i can feel stupid trying to guess whose mouth you are speaking thru at the time :)

one idea i like the idea of is that philosophy can conquer stupidity without doing so overtly

so the reader doesn't need to want to "oppose slavery" (which is a state of mind that philosophy can help i guess flourish, in different ways)

in order to lose their illusions about it

tbh i think this would be what is truly startling and

good

about critical theory etc.

perhaps just my interest in marx there

but i was talking to someone today, a decent grad student way more enmeshed in these things than myself