Damn. I've lost the blog I started today by not publishing or saving it as a draft. Anyway, what I was saying, basically, was that I'm finding Johnson's Moral Imagination heavy wading--more than for its flaccid lack thereof, sloppy metaphors, and over-all stink of pragmatism--for the pathetic intellectual insufficiency of the poor, dumb author, as epitomized in his personal history of how he dealt with military service and the draft (Compare it, for example, with my own dealings with draft, blogged on May 10th and 11th, 2006). So, I'm thinking "experientialism" really does require squashing by somebody (I understand Chomsky has already had a whack at it)--but not by me. The analogy that occurs to me is pig-wrestling: Apart from inevitably getting dirtier than you intend to get, the drawback is that the pig and you can never agree on the basic point of what wrestling is....