is it ok to be luddite

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, jbor wrote:

> 
> And, don't forget McLuhan. The medium is (at least part of) the message. 
> Endorsement of the ideas automatically and unequivocally legitimises the
> medium in which they have been expressed. Violence will only beget violence.
> This, also, is the lesson of history. It is not Liberté, Egalité et
> Fraternité which are perpetuated, but the very Reign of Terror itself.

We can formulate a necessity-of-violence or primacy-of-violence theory
here. If reading is a kind of misreading, why is friendly persuasion not a
kind of unfriendly persuasion?

Ten points on the final grade.

			P.