Re: WSN--what's up?

It is not necessary to be part of a listserv in which you perceive yourself to
be received with hostility.
I find Steve Sherman doing a first rate job of moderating though I am sure the
job is not always pleasant.
 TKG.

John Leonard wrote:

> 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