After having read CoL49, this is what one of my students said ...

[Chris Pinner]

Don't get me started on how absolutely terrifying that survey is.  I
acan't even begin to imagine our government in 20 years when kids like
that start possibly becoming involved.  It will make the Bush
administration look like a bunch of hippie liberals hell-bent on free
love for all.


On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:44:30 +0000, john winthrop
<john_winthrop at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Well how old are your students?
> Not that it's a good excuse, just wondering.
> to know how important the mail system is you would have to use it every once
> in a while, some how the more it goes the less snail mail we are acquainted
> with. did you read about that high school survey showing a majority of
> students thought the first amendment to be too liberal?
> hm.
> welcome to our world.
> 
> >From: Chris Pinner <chris.pinner at gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: Chris Pinner <chris.pinner at gmail.com>
> >To: Tim Strzechowski <Dedalus204 at comcast.net>
> >CC: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >Subject: Re: After having read CoL49, this is what one of my students said
> >...
> >Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:21:25 -0500
> >
> >Wait a minute...there ar epeople who don't get how important the mail
> >system is to the world?  How they control most major communications at
> >some time or another?  Holy crap...not to mention all the other stuff
> >going on in there.  I find it hard to imagine a system that holds more
> >subtle power over the people than the postal service.
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:46:20 -0600, Tim Strzechowski
> ><Dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > "I can't believe that we actually had to read this book. It was based on
> >an
> > > obsession over an underground mail system. (How exciting...) Why would
> > > anyone even care if there was mail getting delivered by means of
> >something
> > > other than the system set up by the U. S. Government."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Welcome to MY world . . .
> > >
> > >
> > > Oy
> pynchon-l at waste,org
> 
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