Even worse (more ironic, more funny, more tragic) would be if noone were
actually listening/reading anyhow. Now that would be bad.... Imagine if it
were instead the case that loads of geographers were simply getting fed up
of their mail boxes being filled by the same few people everyday and not
even reading these messages. I have this theory that you could say anything
you liked on this forum and noone would ever know. Try it...I dare you !!!!
Imagine also the size of the ego of the frequent poster...
>From: Graham Simon Gardner <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Graham Simon Gardner <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: the empire strikes back at what ? (again)
>Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 03:32:23 +0100
>
>I truly hope this was intended to be ironic - and I'm not being ironic, or
>even funny. If it wasn't, it's just tragic.
>
>Graham
>
>
>At 10:27 AM 7/17/00 GMT, you wrote:
> >Some might have cried "enough already" but the debate "rages" on !
> >
> >Graham Gardner wrote:
> >>While not wishing to appear immune to the general spirit of irony >that
>is
> >>apparently the mood of the moment (see my earlier postings), >I find it
> >>depressing that many academics still lump together >incredibly
>heterogenous
> >>groups under a single label and then >denigrate them.
> >
> >Not sure that the forum has adopted an ironic spirit...therein lies the
> >beauty of such an approach. You really never can tell...and neither
>should
> >you want to. It is about a failure to engage not because we don't want
>to
> >or cannot but because it makes us smile. The crit-geog-forum is ideally
> >suited to this kind of behaviour: rapid fire, ephemeral (perhaps not
>enough
> >so), a space for partial debates, half-arsed efforts. Unpolished
> >performances - am tempted even to say naked aggression (that though would
>be
> >_wrong_).
> >
> >>While I don't have aparticular problem with offending Nazis, >homophobes
> >>and religious
> >>fundamendalists (although I would ask, To what end?)
> >
> >Again, this is precisely the point ! There is no end in sight, no goal,
>no
> >objective. The first step in accepting pointlessness (or attempting to
> >engage with such pointlessness - what's the point though) is to forget
>what
> >the point ever was. Offending these people works to no effect therefore
>I
> >do so because. "because" must become justification enough on its own
>and,
> >often, does suffice. At least it is honest (assuming no-one has misled
> >themself).
> >
> >>I find it intenesly depressing that a so-called 'radical' forum is so
> >>easily reduced to the lowest level of debate. Unless, of course, >Andew
> >>was being very subltly ironic - in which case, I've missed the
> >point,and I
> >>apologise.
> >
> >Stop it !!! I am choking. The irony is too much. Radical ? In scare
>quotes
> >! Fantastic. Too much, too soon (where's that couch ??) And, remember,
>if
> >you will post, you will be "policed".
> >Thanks
> >dan
> >=============
> >Dan Knox
> >Department of Geography
> >University of Durham
> >Durham
> >UK
> >DH1 3LE
> >
> >0191 374 2472
> >
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