Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 18:00:25 -0400
Subject: Re: Introduction to the list.


Brad in a poetic fit wrote
>
>A phantom forest of gilded stumps fed by rotting roots... where the social
>entity is not enabled to speak for itself, being obliged to look to
>representatives or spokesmen to speak for it.
>
 ahhhh arcadian dreams of Babel -- when each spoke for themself in their
own tongue -- sorta like the internet where all is leveld-- byte by byte --
what might we hope for  but to squeeze our toes once again in the
primordial ooze  --  a dream the dream of erudition and noble knowledge --
Riciprocally to criticize for seeking  parameters  is  but to be a product
of the times.  This not only forms our consciousness but also our critical
relation to the  world. Apparentlyto set  about to resolve the
contradictions that arose from a one sided modernist approach to such
questions  is not as preferable as returning to or advancing to some
imagined ideal state.  By the way where did you go to school, who taught
you to read and think for yourself while all those around you were being
enslaved?




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