Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 00:41:38 -0400
Subject: Re: PUPT: Eureka!


>     And one caveat-- what does it say about us if we look down upon our
>audiences from our lofty level and expect them to rise to our exalted view?

I, for one, believe that it doesn't assume that someone at a "lofty 
level" has nothing in common with their audience. Your statement, 
Alice, seems to say that, automatically, audiences are not already 
raised up. I find it somewhat patronizing. I never think that 
audiences need to "rise to my exalted view." I expect to find them 
there, and voila! there they are.

Why inject this air of classism?

Rober Smythe


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