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Re: WSN--what's up? by Jay Fenello 09 May 2003 20:35 UTC |
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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.
The *in your face* culture of being coarse, abbrasive and offensive, a culture which was discovered on the fringes of society among the working classes and poorest of neighborhoods, among the least educated and most vile of characters has become mainstream. ... the government is supposed to step in and make sure the little guys who are trying to eke out an honest living don't get trampled in the process but with all that government reform and business and industry deregulation and the unbridled greed and the deliberate utilization of race as a component in the social stratification of society, well isn't a little criticism of what is really going on called for?
Deleting is easier than monitoring.
Yes, you should moderate somewhat more strictly.
Gunder Frank discussed this aspect of the higher educational system in which the dominant ideology was transmitted to students through a process in which the modes of thought and analysis were controlled, regulated and directed by professors who were anything but disinterested parties to the process. There is a great deal of conformity in this country. There is a pecking order. We are not a nation that believes in equality for all. We are a nation of deal making and aggression in all it's forms and of rampant, unscrupulous self-interests.
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!
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