Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 16:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Beasley-Murray <jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu>
Subject: politics not personalities...


There is very little one can deduce from an internet address or email 
.signature.  I continue to be astonished by how much people read into 
these little designations like .edu or .com...

Recently I've been especially suprised at how allegations or assumptions 
about age have become an issue.  I guess some think that anyone with an 
.edu address must be 18.  

But so if they were?  I don't just want grumpy old men in *my* 
revolution.  Think of the music we'd have to listen to (oh, here goes 
Joan Baez again...) or the hideous nature of post-revolutionary 
clothing [insert cute cyber-smiley here]

I wasn't alive during the Cuban revolution, nor for many other events of 
the Twentieth century.  While I appreciate the recollections and opinions 
of those who have lived through or seen such events, I don't think this 
relative lack of experience damns me a priori from discussion.

And I think it's a little silly for people to have to produce their 
radical or organizational CVs or resumes before they feel able to speak.

As Louis said to Han, all opinions and positions are up for grabs on this 
list, but I think they should be contested as opinions, not as the 
one-dimensional expression of a projected life and a fantasized personality.

Take care

Jon

Jon Beasley-Murray
Literature Program
Duke University
jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons


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