From: "michelle phil lewis-king" <king.lewis-AT-easynet.co.uk>
Subject: RE: What is this shit
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 04:27:24 -0000


paul, 
who is michel,michell?
Yours,
Michelle.
> 
> I to sometimes laugh aloud at Michel's wit/irony/sarcasm but often it
> degenerates into a Q/A scene which does little credit to anyone, least of
> all michell.
> 
> What is a conversation for (remember?) If some of the contributors are so
> smart, why do they so quickly take pot shots at whoever appears 
> not to have
> thought things through, or appears to be making 'silly' mistakes. Hardly
> conducive to encouraging people who are uncertain of their ideas to even
> begin to discuss them.
> 
> 
> Greg Seigwort wrote a post recently that was described by Michel as a
> 'lengthy ramble'. This is not conducive to people sharing their 
> thoughts in
> an ecology of ideas (pace Guattari, Bateson). Why bother with 
> such comments
> which are essentially disparaging. 
> Here i imagine retorts claiming that 'lengthy ramble' is descriptive, not
> critical....blah blah. Or if that's what one thinks one should 
> write it..etc.
>