From: pmargin-AT-froggy.com.au
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:28:07 +1000
Subject: Re: AUT: Language and Communication




Thomas Seay wrote:

 
> (1) Is it just me?  Have I grown ignorant with age?

dunno about you, Thomas - ;-) - but I have a growing concern about such
things these days.

I'm sure that there is a lot of your points (2) to (4) out there. What
interests me the most, though, is your point (5):

> (5) Have we become so "boxed-in", so estranged, from
> the world that we no longer can succeed in passing
> beyond the frontiers of our own private world to the
> public world of communication?...I guess this could be
> considered part of point three (3).

There have been a few fruitful if brief discussions on this list in the
past re communicating 'beyond the frontiers of our own private world' -
it would be good to take this up again.

As a start, it would be useful, for example, to reflect upon the
language and communication of the anti-G8 activities in Genoa.

On the writing front, I think there are a number of comrades who *are*
able to write clearly, without talking down to anyone. Perhaps we should
look for any GOOD examples of such communication we can think of, and
consider their strengths and weaknesses . . .

Steve


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