REGARDING the latest outburst by Terry Banfield, and the shocked response by Stuart Taylor (Aug 6), anyone should realise Terry’s bark is worse than his bite.
My own dialogue with him over many years took me over long voyages of thinking, and his “Anarchism” and writing Novich on the envelope.
All government and law should be abolished took me to Masters of the 3rd or 4th Century.
Masters in Rhetoric such as Lactantius, Arnobius and Archelaus.
It made for scepticism over Labour from 1891 or democracy (USA, GB) and many philosophers.
Philosophy, these masters told us, was two ideas. Knowledge (Sophocles) and opinion (Zena). Sophocles – the “wisest of mankind” – knew one thing, “that he knew nothing”. (An invalid Logic but one followed at Glamorgan during my time).
Terry perhaps follows this slightly, but more Zeno and Opinion.
He cannot destroy religion. What has led towards decline is perhaps passivity as a “Socialisation semi Cultural” from Marx, Webber), a transfer from Locke, and Post moderns such as “Narrative Identity” in Bakhtin.
As the only male in feminism studies, one now sees Sparta and Plato were not the only dreadful examples of civilisation meltdown. This, Terry made me so think.
Paul Faulkner
Bailey Street
Brynmawr
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