pynchon-l-digest V2 #2252

[Paul Mackin]

You're welcome.

        P

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #2252


> Thanks, Paul, for providing such a good example of how, with advancing
age,
> people can grow so certain that their convictions -- yours, apparently,
> that this war is inevitable and right and that its critics are inevitably
> wrong -- are beyond question.  Thankfully, I have the opportunity to spend
> a lot of my time with several seniors who remain open to new ideas and who
> welcome discussion and debate of the issues of the day, including this
war.
> Some of them disagree with anti-war views, but, unlike you, they don't
> dismiss out of hand the arguments and information presented by the war's
> critics, nor do they work so hard to discredit the war's critics through
ad
> hominem attack without engaging any of the points offered for discussion,
> as you have consistently done here.  Instead, they take the time to read
> and think about the spectrum of views regarding the war, before accepting
> or rejecting them.
>
> And, thank goodness for online journalism, which is in fact one of the
only
> links to information and opinions about the way that have in fact been
> systematically excluded from the corporate media in the U.S.  Ridicule the
> messenger if you will, but you can't prevent the message from getting
> through.