Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 23:01:46 -0500
From: Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Advisory Board for PHIL-LIT


At 10:19 PM 11/10/97 -0400, you (Stirling Newberry) wrote:
>If Mr. Trail wants to know who I am lecturing - it is myself. If he does
>not have the humility to realise that some of these points might also apply
>to a person who rights rhetoric texts on one hand and then breaks his own
>rules on the other, then he is doomed to watch the sort of people like
>Myers rise up and take over. If he wants to watch the ideas he has spent a
>lifetime developing and teaching over come by Myer's burbling about the
>whichness of wherefore in a semi-catagorical mode, then he can continue to
>sneer at people who do not kiss his backside. He can continue to operate
>under the delusion that he can simply smear and sneer at them and claim
>that they are nothing at all. Otherwise - he will have to consider another
>course.
>

Although there has been a bit of small-scale sniping on this list today, my
evaluation (for what very small amount it is worth) is that when people have
seen that the next step would be the ballistic one, they have stepped back
and asked themselves, "Who wants to be stuck in the `local' elevator with
everyone after one has passed wind?" I've seen at least four or five people
pretty publicly think about this today, and I would like to thank them for
making the decisions they made.

These however are decisions that have to be made by every individual, every
day, at every juncture where the temptation to drop ordnance presents itself.

Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing-AT-nyu.edu or downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu



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