Can't we all just get along?

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

My good friend Diana shows that warping minds, young or old, is one of her 
strengths:
  >As
>to whether you can count your local school as an example of a "village" or
>not, I wouldn't expect to have to point out the absurdity of that. We are
>not in a system that permits "village" operations anywhere, nor do I think
>the "government" is the ideal source of overturning our current, damaging
>metanarratives (hardly!). 

Point well taken, I musta misread you as being more Hilarian than it seems you 
are.  There is the definite sound of knees jerking at this place.

>As for where I get this crap, John, you might remember our CWIP seminar
>all those years ago--too much of what I heard during my liberal education
>made too much sense for me to discount it.  If that's "knee-jerking," so
>be it . . .

Yes it was exactly in the spirit of that raucous CWIP seminar (I can't remember the 
meaning of the acronym, and inquiring Ted wants to know, so can you remember 
it and tell him?  It was a Ford-funded seminar designed to help us concerned 
teachers become more--multicultural--in our classrooms.  In practice, well . . .), 
where I was just too obstructionist for some, that I made that Moon Glampers 
tweak at you.  I used to feel a lot of pressure for not toeing party lines in that 
seminar.  I remember you somehow managed to be correct and independent at the 
same time.  Maybe if I took one of your classes, let some of that mind-warp stuff in, 
I will see more clearly

Getting along is about all we can do, one way or the other.  Count me in, Rodney.

john m