Re: [microsound] Re: us citizens... (OT)

[david golightly <davigoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fair enough.  After such an election, it's no surprise that people 
everywhere are somewhat distracted.

It's just been my experience that such discussions have an unfortunate 
tendency to degenerate into vitriol quite quickly, and have a way of 
damaging the goodwill on the list.

though I must commend fellow microsounders for keeping it above the belt 
thus far- the thread on futurists/fascists is especially interesting.

I'll keep my complaints to myself, then.

> From: Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [microsound] Re: us citizens... (OT)
> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 09:08:18 -0800
>
> At 9:49 PM -0500 11/4/04, david golightly wrote:
> > I second that... I know everyone's feeling strongly about the election 
> > right now (myself included) but there are plenty of other mailing lists 
> > and online discussions pertaining to this topic, and most of us count on 
> > this list to spare us from politics.
>
> This is a fairly typical and reasonably stated example of an objection to 
> political discussion on a special-interest discussion list, so I'll comment 
> on it:
>
> One reason people with strong political feelings participate in political 
> discussions on nominally non-political lists is in order to get a 
> particular "take" on a situation or philosophical polarity. To take the 
> discussion from this microsound community to (for example) a Rush Limbaugh 
> list or a Noam Chomsky list would be to have a different discussion. In 
> other words, those who wish to discuss politics here do so because they 
> want to discuss them here, not just because they want to discuss politics.
> --
>
> ______________________________________________________________
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