Re: Shallow Intellectual Drivel on this List
Andrew Charles Kennis (holden@escape.com)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 19:28:00 -0400 (EDT)
In an attempt to improve the lack of intellectual discourse on this list,
though I don't agree with what is lacking as far as the original poster of
this thread has to say, I will put out a postulate of which everybody is
encouraged to reply to.
Why does there seem to be a particularly significant, though not out of
control, but nevertheless significant amount of flaming that goes on on
this list? I was thinking about this question I arrived to an answer. I
thought it had to be the universality of Salinger's writing must have
attracted an extremely diverse group of people, a group that when I
originally joined this list almost two years ago now, I thought would be
pretty homogenous in their interests and backgrounds. Plainly though, I
see that that is not even close to reality. There are snobs and angst
ridden peoples on this list, arrogant and conceited types as well as
extremely modest human beings. When I've gone off on my radical left
stuff, I've gotten supporters and big time opponents as well. There are
the rich and the poor (supposedly, at least) here. I am skeptical about
our racial diversity, but that's a rather large unknown due to the nature
of our medium here.
In any case, I'm wondering, what do you all think about what I am getting
at here? Am I overestimating what I perceive to be a diversity phenomenon
resulting from the universality of Salinger's works, or not?
--AK