Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 13:23:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Net Criticism 2.0/network extension


On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Ostrow/Kaneda wrote:

> ... Theoretical
> Luddites and Know Nothings merely replicate the positions and mistakes of
> their predecessors --

This seems an astonishingly accurate characterization of the critically
insular and decrepit Vanguard Institution... Is it still called "tenure?" 

> I once had a teacher who as an example of
> saignificance and insiginificance would talk about how it would be amazing
> if a native of the Amazon forest invented the telephone --  but totally
> insignificant unless that telephone was in some manner an improvement over
> our own.

Our culturally expansive global network is a significant improvement over
the duplicitous, cloaked insularity of the vanguard. 


/:b






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