The strongest tack for hedonists to take is to accept the apparent force of the experience machine objection, but to insist that it rests on 'common sense' intuitions, the place in our lives of which may itself be justified by hedonism.
(Or, significantly more weakly, that there is no way to identify which, if any, of the immediately experienced objects is the physical object itself, so that the evidential force of the experience is in this respect the same in all cases, and it is epistemologically as though physical objects were never given, whether or not that is in fact the case).
I think, in this modern world, you really have to be sure that your work force has the experience of being elsewhere.
Dr. Judith Feder, the dean of policy studies at Georgetown University, formerly a top Clinton health adviser, said she found it ironic that Mr. Bush would propose a task force, "given the experience of '93-94 '93-94
She has a reedy voice and she sings a little bit deadpan, as if the force of some experience flattened her manner but also gave her a knowing and slightly aloof perspective.
Peace, reconstruction and development Afghanistan's Minister of Women's Affairs, Dr. Husn Banu Ghazanfar, reinforced that point with the force of harsh experience.
It's also about language as it embodies the force of the past — language as experience and desire, as memory and history.
(The story also features the phrase "Ain't this a blip!," which Collins used in a similar way in "Losing Ground," to assert the force of black-American experience against the ostensible neutrality of white-toned academic culture).
There is surely truth in this; as Mr Bram points out, writers such as Isherwood and Williams who had to disguise their sexuality in their writing suffered great strain, and their work, denied the nourishing force of personal experience, suffered too.
This also explains Schlegel's admiration of Old Comedy, because in this case the spectator is constantly forced to remain aware of the experience in which s/he is partaking, namely the experience of the difference between reality and illusion.
Not very, in Klarman's accounting: "Deep background forces" — notably, the experience of the Second World War and the encounter with Nazi racial ideology — "ensured that the United States would experience a racial reform movement regardless of what the Supreme Court did or did not do".
