From: TekUtopia-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 01:08:50 EDT
Subject: Re: if -- And (Ignore previous message)



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Sorry, I keep accidentally sending mail with this damn track pad.

I suppose you would level the same ad hominem criticism against any 
Archeology that seeks to understand the 
historical/cultural/economic/political trends that allows a text to be 
written. Sorry, but texts aren't created in vaccuums by writers with 
objective insight into Truth. Unique historical situations are always at 
play. Interpretation of anyone's sexuality is a text in itself that deserves 
analysis. It seems awfully Victorian to put it beyond academic discourse.

It's too easy to dismiss a discussion your uncomfortable with as "silly," 
"pseudo-intellecutal," and "moronic."

<<Come on dude, this is all a bunch of bullcrap and you know it. Plato's 
texts, like all texts, stand on their own. Your claim "to have known Plato 
the person" is laughable. I've been subscribed to a number of lists, but I've 
never seen such psyco-babble in all my life. Some of you are even worse than 
the Ayn Rand followers, and they're some of the dumbest people on the planet. 
The reason why you and a large number of other people are doing what you do 
is obvious: it's all you can do. And the reason it's all you can do is 
because you haven't yet educated yourselves to the point that you can read 
and understand the texts involved, and comment upon them intelligently. In 
essence, what a number of you are saying is this: "Well, maybe I can't 
understand the text, but I can understand that the author liked to have sex 
just like I do! And that the author pissed and crapped just like I do! I can 
talk about all of that with authority! Nobody can put out crap any better 
than I can!" 
Well, it was fun making light of you pseudo-intellectual morons for a while, 
but the novelty of it has worn off. In fact, I now find it disturbing to see 
that ability of so many people to think in this "post modern" era has eroded 
to such an extent. Go buy yourselves some Foucault love-dolls and have your 
fun. I want nothing further to do with this silliness. 
>>

One Love,

Aaron J. Lyttle

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