File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_2000/nietzsche.0009, message 55


From: "Patrick Dowland" <patrick_dowland-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Let's show our power!
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:00:18 EDT


People of this list,

How much longer are we going to put up with the idiotic abuse that seems to be
the rule on this list?  Every time a serious discussion tries to arise, it gets
stifled by the self-puffed-up shinanigans of whatever calls itself
"Lambida C" and its turgid puppet Askansas, a self-styled "moderator".  
And what do they have to offfer?

Do you not remember all the people who tried to stand up to "Lambuda C" 
and got forcibly unsubscribed from the list by the Askansas dumbwit?  It is 
a long trail of well-intentioned people who got unwitingly victimized by 
faschistic tactics.  Do you not remember Heidi Rimke, John Durrea, Paul Rhodes,
hijinks-AT-uta.edu?  Do you not remember Steven Callihan, who was once the life 
of the list (a true thinker) and who left it in protest against the tyrany 
that it had fallen under?  And you, George, who quote more Nietzsche than 
anybody, have you not been booted off by Askansas presisely for knowing 
too much?  Yet, incoprehensibly, you have returned for more abuse, and 
offer no protest to being called "Sheerwood".  Why?  It is not a pretty 
spetacle.  And you, Cornets, have you not been told by Askansas that
you were not "worth his while"?  Have you not been disgustingly abused and
ridiculed by "Lambda C"?  Yet you hail its "violence" and ask for more.  Why?
Feeding this kind of abusing people with material for their salacious foreys,
only fosters them.

Now, here we come to what is important.  we must ask ourselves -

For whose benefit are we on this list?  Do we ourselves benefit when our words
are twisted around and ridiculled, our thoughts insulted, our rights thrown 
into the garbage?  What kind of a people are we? Do you realize that the 
only ones who benefit from all this are the so-called "Spoon Collective" 
who run this list and all the other lists at Virginia?  They probably put 
on their resumes that they run the Nietzsche list, and other lists, 
and when people look in the archives they see all this discusion and all 
this work, and the "Spoon Collective" gets the credit.  Just imagine! 
And who does this work?  We do it, the members of the list, for the exclusive 
benefit of the "Spoon Collective" and their puppet Askansas!  It is too much!

So then, why do we do it?  Why do we let ourselves be taken in and exploited?
Some of us call themselves feminists, some call themselves freedom-lovers, and
most call themselves, at least in some respect, Nietzscheans.  But do we
act acordingly?  No, we stay on this list and take the abuse and the
unlawfullness.  Do you realize that any of us could start another 
Nietzsche list, one that would be safe for serios discussion, and not be 
under the "moderation" of pufheads and puppets?  There are sites that offer 
free lists, for example www.onelist.com and www.egroups.com.  Why should 
we put up with this?

Here is what I propose - let us all unsubcsribe colectively in protest and stop
catering to the "Lambida C"s, the Askansases and the Spoon Collective.  I call
for a massive boycot of this list.  I will set an example and unsubscribe
first.  Follow me!  Stop being someone else's slave!  When we are all gone, 
then Lambida C and Askansas can talk to each other.  It would serve them right.


Patrick Dowland

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