Pynchon's "knewspeak"

[prozak at anus.com]

> > On any truly intelligent list, any perspective
> > would be welcome (that's not true here...).
> 
> Well, I wouldn't say anyone here isn't "intelligent,"
> or that the LIST, per se, doesn't welcome various
> perspectives, but, on that latter note, certainly,
> there are individuals who are less hospitable to some
> perspectives than others.  Me, I'm not always thrilled
> to see some of them show up at my door, but i do try
> to be a gracious host, at any rate ...

A great post; I don't mean to snip so much but this is where the 
focus falls, somehow: a community is made of individuals. Thus the 
whole is the reactions of those individuals as they end up after some 
cancel each other out - one is left with the unchallenged, thus the 
assumed, values of the community.

Innarestin' stuff

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