From: "Jaclyn Rosebrook-Collignon" <jaclynr-AT-free.fr>
Subject: Re:Changing one's mind ...
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 12:10:07 +0200


Sorry for the multiple postings; I have another question.  Anthony, could
you please send me the reference to the work where you found that changing
one's mind takes 10 years?  Perhaps if someone convinces me that it takes
that long, I'll change my approach.
Thanks,
jaclyn
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From: Anthony McCann <mccannat-AT-si.edu>
To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: Alternative to this list -- 'H-Postcolonial' (proposed)


> For me it's not a question of isolating from 'the masses'. I am on a lot
of lists and there is a distinct dominance of Israeli/Palestine discussion,
which is fine, but I am already subscribed to lists that provide me with
such discussions and I didn't subscribe to this one to get inundated with
the same. There is also a high proportion of flaming here compared to other
lists I have been on, and if I were in a room with such interaction I would
soon walk out.
>
> In my view, the researchers
> and scholars (and other professionally minded people in postcolonialism-
> whatever that means) have a duty to be on lists like this to temper,
ignite,
> orient and rectify the flows of argument.>
>
> Honestly, I couldn't be bothered. It takes about 10 years for a person's
mind to change, so I'm not going to engage in to and fro argument for the
sake of it. Neither am I interested in making other people think like me. I
am interested in engaging with colleagues in ways that help me bring my
thinking to new places, not in doubling back on myself all the time to
engage in claim and counterclaim argumentation. Internet lists can easily
get caught up in the politics of rhetoric for rhetoric's sake, and I'm not
interested in that.
>
> All the best,
>
> Anthony McCann
>
>
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