WSN - an X-Ray of our list

Dear colleagues:

Recent developments on this list give pause for thought. A short
quantitative content analysis of our archive 

http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/wsn/glimpse.html
<http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/wsn/glimpse.html> 

reveals the following occurrences of messages containing the following
catch-words in our electronic exchanges since the very beginning of the
list. The implications of this analysis should be, I think, on everybody's
mind, before clicking the send-command:


The sinking ship? - Considerable insatisfaction is present


Summary for query "unsubscribe":
Found at least 124 matches in at least 101 files 


Hate language abounds:


Summary for query "insult":
Found at least 150 matches in at least 101 files 

Summary for query "outrageous":
Found 81 matches in 81 files 

Summary for query "reactionary":
Found at least 150 matches in at least 101 files 

Summary for query "idiotic":
Found 32 matches in 30 files 

Summary for query "hate":
Found at least 115 matches in at least 101 files 

Summary for query "bum":
Found 3 matches in 2 files 


Easy promises of a promised land are made all too often:


Summary for query "comrade":
Found at least 361 matches in at least 101 files 

Summary for query "socialist revolution":
Found 166 matches in 61 files 

Summary for query "imperialism":
Found at least 219 matches in at least 101 files 


By contrast:


Some hard, core-issues of world-systems research are being dealt with,
others not:


Summary for query "data analysis":
Found 21 matches in 21 files 

Summary for query "long cycle":
Found at least 261 matches in at least 101 files 

Summary for query "re-orient":
Found 102 matches in 69 files 

Summary for query "quantitative":
Found at least 160 matches in at least 101 files 

Summary for query "European Union":
Found at least 243 matches in at least 101 files 


More academic discourse would be a promising beginning and would help
graduate and undergraduate students in finding relevant materials and data:


Summary for query "research result":
Found 6 matches in 6 files 

Summary for query "library":
Found at least 177 matches in at least 101 files 


Dialogue of cultures and on a future global order, for example, could be a
more promising beginning:


Summary for query "islam":
Found at least 180 matches in at least 101 files 

Summary for query "catholic":
Found at least 187 matches in at least 101 files 

Summary for query "protestant":
Found at least 161 matches in at least 101 files 

Summary for query "human rights":
Found at least 391 matches in at least 101 files 

Summary for query "Galtung":
Found 99 matches in 40 files 

Summary for query "Goldstein":
Found at least 237 matches in at least 101 files 

Summary for query "United Nations":
Found at least 155 matches in at least 101 files 


Kind regards

Arno Tausch