RE: META: Working Towards a Pledge

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jun 14 2003 - 11:12:03 MDT

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    Robert writes

    > On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Greg Burch wrote:
    >
    > > If you care about this list as a forum for continuing
    > > discussions of vital ideas and issues, PLEASE read -- and REREAD --
    > > Lee's post and make a conscious and continuing effort to adopt Lee's
    > > pledge.

    Well, first, the three items I put forward are put forward
    mainly at this point to be criticized, or re-worked. But
    thanks for the encouragement.

    > I agree with both Lee and Greg and have tried, at least much of
    > the time, to follow similar rules. The exceptions perhaps being
    > when I enter "rant mode" and I try to provide notification for that.

    Yes. On reflecting on what appeared to be one sarcastic response
    to my note, it occurred to me that not only do we (positively)
    share our thoughts on this list, but (positively?) share our
    feelings. Now as our feelings, it turns out, are an integral
    part of our thinking (Damiaso et. al.), "rant modes" and sarcastic
    responses can be seen in a positive light: they are efforts to
    share our often internal lower level unfinished thoughts too. Yet
    somehow this kind of sharing, while informative, for some reasons
    is often unproductive.

    But then Robert goes on to discuss (following Greg's lead, alas),
    the Iraq war in *this* thread.

    As threads such as this are aimed at appealing to the most non-
    partisan parts of our consciousness, I think that that's bad slip.
    I too want to say what I think (and perhaps even what I feel) about
    the war, but when I've caught up to all the discussion, I'll
    go into "partisan mode" there. Certainly ideological remarks
    ought never to be made in META threads.

    Lee



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