A Dove In The Hand, Baby Boomers, Chinese Philosophy Mixed Thread

[Elainemmbell at aol.com]

My responses to eddie's post are interspersed in bold below:

In a message dated 1/29/2003 11:11:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
eddiebettano at yahoo.com writes:

> As a baby-boomer, okay, I made this painfully obvious in my post defending 
> My Generation certainly you know that
> Chinese philosophy (sorry, but I prefer to use the
> term philosophy) as opposed to? Confusionismm Taoism, Buddhism,
> others, provide insights into the world and human life
> that are perfectly relevant to our current problems
> and crisis.agreed without prejudice (except I don't think that Confucianism 
> is Confusionismm)!
> Talking about W and W's oratory skills is a waste of
> wrapping head and head wrapping too. here's where Eddie has 
> over-interpreted my really simple question.  I asked about the deliberate 
> mispronunciations not because I'm interested in his intellect or lack 
> thereof (and agree that many, many other minds drive decision making) but 
> I'm interested in WHY this image of a US president in a critical era not 
> being particularly literate is what's marketed to us.  I don't understand 
> the PR behind it.  That's all.
> 


Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
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