From: "fili houtman" <filihoutman-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: first rate third world
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:54:29 +0000



the grass is always bluer on the other side of the fence. i
agreed with much of your critique, just not the nature of it.
closing books can be dangerous. i have seen some postings
from today. i think the site is unregulated (although this is
hard to believe.) why the swedish version of Instant
messenger??? i find your postings quite interesting, if
somewhat less than informative. expression goes a long way
and may replace knowledge if we could let it.

off,
j. patrick fadely

i thought that you rejection of my "critique" of america is much too simple. 
i think i want to raise some issues, that connects us from both what i hear 
when switching on the news, the internet, or nomadising as a gipsy in paris 
or what other city. i hope the somewhat tradition of internationalism may be 
preserved on this list, that it stays human, and not only the property of 
those focused around the world seen as from (your) country. i appreciate 
greatly whatever posting on this list, i just am quite surprised that there 
are so few people writing their inside thoughts. may be out of ignorance i 
got the impression that i risked to be banned from the list, and i measured 
the risk there is for banning expression and innovation in it's outward 
liberation (though progressive and slow),

books. you know what you say that knowledge is a precious thing. it's only 
if you look at the famous quote  of henry miller saying rimbaud seeing 
everything what has been taught is false remains true. (think about all 
these people surrounded by mtv WORLD, etc, what is their poetry of 
existence.
to conterfeit this saying, i see only the possibility that the knowledge 
that we need can be situated not in necessarily() previous litterature, but 
by expression and it's development, both alone and collectively from 
researchers in different domains which could well gain a lot from talking 
more on this server. but they give up so obediently to CNN etc.

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