From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 23:20:35 MDT
Alex Bokov:
<<...and as for this list being mutual admiration society, as a matter of
fact
I do admire the people on this list. Including Mike and Samantha... except
when they're aiming vicious little barbs at each other with the rest of us in
the middle. With the world so full of petty, snide, cynical, mean-spirited
nonsense perhaps a little mutual admiration is exactly what we need here.>>
I wasn't really refering to that particular clash. But there have been digs
that seem perversely immature and petty. On top of that I feel that the
admiration, you refer to, is sometimes seen to be just ego-feeding. Everyone needs a
pat now and then, but the buttering up sometimes seems egregious. I can
overlook that if the list content is pleasing, otherwise. But, again, cliqishness ,
or ego-feeding (all part of a mutual admiration society, is disconcerting at
best. There are important topics, and being induced to conform to ego-rites is
not good for the psyche.
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