>now tell me more about dialectics...

Is this a come-on? If I get really geeky and start on that I know you'll
just laugh. But, oh what the hell, so far as I can understand it, there's
something really special about Hegelian dialectics (as opposed to the
dialectics of schmucks?) and that has something to do with criticism. I
think Marx liked his brew so much because it managed to preserve the
integrity of the object of critique - the other guy's argument - whilst
advancing a different point of view. Instead of just proving that your
idea is right by proving that the other one is wrong, the dialectician
will use the other argumentation to itself reveal its own short comings
whilst preserving the original framework of thinking. It also seems to
involve lots of paradoxes and contradictions - like, bourgeois society
really sucks because of the division of labour and class rule and stuff
like that but it also advanced industrialism and the world market and
these things can also be good so it doesn't suck completely.

>PS: btw, I thought of this and, you were right, I was surprised I liked Katy so much. wanna know more ?

Let me know, schmo, but don't rub my nose in it.