Re: bad poetry?

Luke writes:
<< I should add that if we're going to be overly concerned about civility,
we might as well abandon hope of honest discussion. >>

Of course. If we are overly anything about anything, we are being overly
something. Nothing overly, as one might translate the Delphic maxim. Of
course.

But so long as one maintains a very uninvasive understanding of "concern,"
being concerned will hardly be deleterious.

I don't know what "class" is (or, as the much older version of the question
goes, What Virtue Itself Is), but I expect that being civilized instead of
barbaric -- which the "barbarians" usually were, in similar proportion to
their conquerers, if only they'd have seen it -- is something in that
direction.

-robbie
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Received on Sat Jul 12 16:37:18 2003