Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:39:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Thomas Seay <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: "use the delete button, Luke ..."



--- Steve Wright <pmargin-AT-froggy.com.au> wrote:
 I'm just trying to encourage all
> those other lurkers out
> there to raise some new threads (or comment on past
> ones).
> 

Steve, I think you have hit the "nail on the head".
The problem is that we have allowed Scott to set the
agenda of this list and we have just reacted to him.
We should get on with raising new interesting threads.

I have been thinking about why I have not been
posting.
I have been busy but not THAT busy.  I realize that
part of the reason (and part of the reason some people
have even left the list) is because of these endless
exchanges with Scott.  It's tiresome after a while.


Now you can imagine that Scott is delighted to learn
this above piece of news.  However, I dont suggest as
a solution that we kick him off the list.  First of
all, I really think that would be a form of censorship
and second of all, I think it would send Scott into a
state of ecstacy.  My experiences with Leninists
informs me that they like nothing better than to take
part
in some modern re-enactment of a Passion Play where
not Jesus, but they, imagine themselves being trotted
through the streets wearing a crown of thorns and
burdened by a huge hammer and sickle.  Instead of
crying out "Father why hast Thou forsaken me", they
cry 
"Look at how they red-bait me".  If we kick him out,
Scott would happily retire to Marxmail or some other
stalinist swamp to pout about how undemocratic the
autonomists are.  Let's not give him that pleasure.
We would only denigrate ourselves.  

It occurs to me that we should be about "positing" and
not about negating; If Scott has something interesting
to say or some interesting point of view to offer,
engage him.  If he is just trying to "pick a fight" or
repeat the same old din for the thousandth time, just
ignore him. It's time to practice "desertion" in the
cyber-world :) At least that is how I shall proceed.
I will also make a point of posting more, and I hope
others will do the same.

Thomas

====<<Be like me!  The Primal Mother, eternally creative, eternally impelling into life,
    eternally drawing satisfaction from the ceaseless flux of phenomena.>>
    -Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy"

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