Re: WSN--what's up?

I originally joined wsn only in self-defence, after a member of this list 
serv [ein gewisser Prof. Täusch], chose it as a forum to trash a book I had 
published, The War on Freedom.

Recently I felt impelled to rise again to the defence of Israel Shamir, 
whose book I am preparing for publication, after he was assailed on this 
list serv - once again, nix apropos Wallerstein.

perhaps i'm being defensive; or perhaps my skewering of the ad hominem 
fallacy cut too close to the bone this time for the pseudo-scholastic mind?

Long ago, rhetoric and logic were dropped from the curriculum in our 
"educational system." Clear thinking techniques are a threat. They could 
allow any intelligent person to cut through the cumulus of cant and come 
straight to clear, correct conclusions on their own, independently of media 
spinmasters and pseudo-academics, as they tirelessly rehash their 
politically correct consensus. When truth needs only to be true, how 
severely the currency of footnotes, diplomas, professorships, and 
"mainstream" oracles will be debased!

This exchange itself has been a miniature comic display of pseudo-scholarly 
anthropology. It's collegial to affirm the group totem by pillorying 
politically incorrect taboos, at length and off topic - but fie on the 
demon spirit that has the impertinence to talk back!

If I'm still not making sense, not to worry. You may be terminally immune 
anyway.



At 21:20 4.5.03 -0400, you wrote:
> Every so often wsn skids off the tracks.  It's my impression that this is 
> happening now.  I suspect many people subscribe to discuss world 
> events/theories influenced by such thinkers as Wallerstein, Gunder-Frank, 
> etc, rather than David Duke.  Should I be moderating more 
> aggressively?  As it is, I'm pretty close to unsubscribing.
>
> Steven Sherman