Re: a little note from Lector
Aaron (aaron.brager@writeme.com)
Sat, 05 Jun 1999 22:52:21 -0400
Well, really. I'm bewildered. I wouldn't think that a 71 year-old man
would forget one essential factor of human nature: It's an established fact
that people are idiots. Even me. Even you.
Thus, despite the fact that you think people are insulting dead soldliers
because they have fun on Memorial Day cookouts, they aren't. What they're
doing, (at least the few that actually think about Memorial Day instead of
thinking that it's just another day off) is laughing because it hurts.
Think about the last time you laughed (assuming psychotic cannibalistic
elderly men laugh). It was about something that hurt. Not neccesarily you,
but it hurt someone. Maybe it was a Monica Lewinsky joke, or a Littleton
joke. In other words, they are mourning while laughing. Not insulting dead
people like you say.
> Well, really. I'm bewildered. Here I am, a plain minded,
> elderly man making an old fashioned plea for decorum -
> only to find myself accused of pretentious writing,
> insulted as 'Lord Scot', diagnosed as psychotic, likened
> on the one hand to a figure from science fiction & on
> the other to a cannibal, told (in my seventy-first year)
> to 'get a life', & so on.
>
> And all of this on a mailing list devoted to a man whose
> exquisite delicacy of feeling & empathy with the unfashionable
> is legendary.
>
> Ah, JD, where are you now that I need you?
>
> Scottie B.