Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:22:12 -0400 From: "J. B. Sclisizzi" <jbs-AT-toronto.cbc.ca> Subject: Re: reality check (was Das Capital) Lois Shawver wrote: > Sorry for your disinterest in discussion, Brent. i am distinterested in the discussion but not uninterested; whereas, your lack of disinterest, being a therapist yourself, coupled with an intellectual interest in your practice, leaves us in an interesting, but imbalanced, dialogue: not an imbalance of knowledge but of disinterest ... the stakes in the game are uneven. and because of your lack of disinterest, i can anticipate that any comment i utter (which unavoidably proceeds from an initial position of offense) will be met with a response (defensive or counter-offensive), and so i can envision an extended tangent of dialogue without any real prospect of consensus. because of the differences in our stakes. my distinterest and your lack of disinterest. and it is this prospect of being caught up in this extended dialogue (not the discussion itself, which i'm sure would be interesting) which, ultimately, uninterests me. brent ...
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