"Reality is that which doesn't go away when you stop believing in it"
vs.
"You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you."
Ergo, reality is political
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If you stub your toe because you're not looking where you are going, you should yell "Dammit Mitch McConnell!"
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These are all pretty obvious ideas that feature in multiple intellectual traditions
I'm sure Scarry is great, but you may be overindexing on her particular flavor of them
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Probably. The only place I've ever heard "the infinite chain of political causation" developed was Scarry. Others?
When Scarry wrote her stuff she was considered totally out side of normal reality, which is why there are no credible reviews, nor citations.
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