Christopher,
I appreciate your response, and, as you might suspect, I have another view
of the situation.
Your three suggested realistic options may be right on target; I can't be
sure of that, partly because I can't see into the future. I do see,
however, that those three options may be a negative group which could be
counteracted by their opposite: opening the issue to truly open discussion,
trusting the wisdom of the listmembers, and thus building this list from
within.
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: Strange
> <snip>
> and that you'd try so desperately to not answer The Question so many of us
> have straightforwardly asked you for. [JP]
> <snip>
>
> Judy and others:
>
> It seems to me that you dislike what has been done, not that you're asking
> a
> question.
>
> The action you now seek, the 'answer' you'd prefer, would certainly
> satisfy some; but it would thereby dissatisfy others who would then want
> their 'question' answered... And so on, like Swift's fleas.
>
> Concentrating upon personalised issues of this sort throttles real
> discussion (about poetry and the ETCs) in favour of futile and rebarbative
> exchanges about perceived scandals and email hanging chads. Peter
> Cudmore's
> mother put it both earlier than I did and much better, but my point is
> hers
> in its essence.
>
> There are just three realistic options, in other words, and only those
> three: (a) get used to the action taken, let the 'question' drop and
> contribute to the List in ways that may attract both new and former
> members;
> (b) leave the List, or else (c) destroy it from within.
>
> I hope you will choose the first.
>
> CW
> _______________________________________________
>
> 'The Question
> has destroyed you.'
> (Neruda)
>
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