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Re:to Dr. Bob regarding warning to dj

Posted by dj on January 11, 2000, at 13:40:28

In reply to Re:to Dr. Bob regarding warning to dj, posted by CarolAnn on January 11, 2000, at 7:03:03

Citation noted. Having spent about 4 hours straight on-line last night did not help the lucidity of my thinking or communications. In my initial post, last night, and previous postings I have meant to focus my critique on PM's writing and not his character as I attempted to clarify in my second posting last night and other postings. Unfortunately as I didn't carefully reread my posting the critique came across more as a personal attack, which was not my intent, as Carol Ann rightfully perceived.

I do not think PM is an idiot and apologize if that's how some of my comments came off. I do think he is a man, who may have flashes of brilliance obscured by verbal babble which reflects what I assume to be a manic disorder or something along those lines and that if he was to receive proper treatment, instead of encouragement in his semi-lucid rambles, he would hopefully be better able to heighten and sharpen his thinking and expression and hence be more effective as an individual.

My critique also comes from a deeper philosphical concern about what passes for intelligence in our society which has been well documented by Neil Postman(Amusing Ourselves to Death), Jerry Mander (Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television), Warren Bennis & Ian Mitroff (The Unreality Industry : The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What It Is Doing to Our Lives).

I have been taught be individuals who were truly brilliant and able to express themselves, simply, clearly, and coherently and they were truly an inspiration (which I think PM might be more so if he could pull it all together) and the issues id-ed in some of the above book were some of the ones we focused on. Part of my training and work experience is in public relations and political studies and part of my concern stems from what I see as the dumb-sizing or our economy and communities that results from the distortions these industries and others (the media) create in our intellectual discourse.

I could go on but I have said more than enough. I will sleep on my views the next time if I think my tone may be off and you can judge me by one of the comments in JFK's inaugaral address where he noted that: "Civility is not a sign of weakness and sincerity is subject to the burden of proof."


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