what's wrong with being pc?

[Ted Samsel]

> 
> I'm interested!  Ethnocentric how?  Mostly I just hear PC bashing used as
> an excuse to maintain centuries-old ethnocentric biases, so this sounds
> like something I need to know.  Diana

I.e. Who died and made the contemporary generation of "well-meaning
academics" god? This generation is no more right than the past generations
and is liable to make mistakes as henious as any generation that has
preceded them. I'm not supporting the status quo, but rather, take the
view that, quite possibly, everyone is wrong.

I'm in my late 40s, a "white" male, and am amused (as well as concerned)
by the ways in which "truth" is articulated by the current milieu. As I
used to ask a lady boss (an historian) "Is history TRUTH or FACTS?"
She didn't like that sort of question. At the time, I had just finished
Carlos Fuentes' TERRA NOSTRA, which gives an interesting take on
the times of La Conquista and the then present. I have another lady
boss (an engineer, sad to say) who does not read, is barely 30, and
can't understand why maps just don't appear de novo from the 'puter.
(I'm a cartographer and have been doing this for 25-26 years...
computers have helped, but....)

So into this "brave new world" I slog, waiting for Mason & Dixon, to
see if TRP has incorporated any jolly bawdy songs from the the late
18th into his ouvre....

Curmudgeonly,

 "You know, owning a computer doesn't make you a graphic artist
any more than owning a drawer full of scalpels makes you a surgeon."

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net  "Took all the money I had in the bank,
                               Bought a rebuilt carburetor, 
                               put the rest in the tank."
                                USED CARLOTTA.. 1995