Posted by pandey_m on January 7, 2001, at 14:27:08
In reply to reply, posted by name on December 30, 2000, at 23:24:54
Excuse me for harping back to Discovery v. babble etc.
1. >To contrast this site with the Discover site is an odd stretch.
Maybe, but so is to *compare* this site with the Discover program.
a:Posting in babble is almost automatic.
b:The moderator gives reasons whenever he edits something out or blocks someone. etc...
c: suppose I (or you) had wanted my (or your) prev. post to *be*, instead of a post, a telecast on the discovery channel. Don't you think it would take a little bit more doing than posting to this site did?2. > It also unlikely that the producer/editor who >included the "garbage" quote, which was in the >particular Discover program cited here as a >random example, was thinking much about creating >a no-holds-barred image.
I absolutely agree, but I fail to see the relevance. Did my post read like the left image of a John Birch Society pamphlet? Where, in my post, do I imply that individual producers / editors are part of some grand conspiracy? They could well be of the highest professional integrity. But they have to work within broad policy guidelines etc. However, in practical terms, this often translates into the fact that they are, *in the aspects relevant to this post*, victims of the process of "Manufacturing Consent".
3. Agreed, the arpanet is part of the history of the internet, but reading "the original internet" as the arpanet is comparable in simplisticity to my prev. post :-). (e.g. How about " 'the original internet' was Schottky's transistor; and everyone knows Schottky was a racist."?) Where one draws the line necessarily involves subjectivity, but IMO* (unlike, e.g. Feyerabend's "Against Method" sort of position) discussion is possible./Ob_attempt_at_provocation/ Feyerabend was the "original" postmodernist.
4. I have switched between industry and academics a dozen times, and IMO* universities are still the lesser evil.
*"If you're going to have [an opinion], why bother to be humble about it?" - Joan Baez
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