a reply for Valérie

    Yes, Valérie, I agree that the cynical posture could well
    become the new conformism. Certainly the puncturing
    sneer is, nowadays, more or less obligatory in the British
    media - I can't speak for the American or French. It's
    probably still the only way to deal with the opportunistic
    psychopaths who set themselves as our governors, but,
    yes OK, it can become wearisome.

    But do you really feel it to be the dominating mood on
    this list? The conformism here - a tyrannical one - seems
    to me to be just the same old exhausted , 'liberal', bien-pensant,
    pacifist, feminised, vegetarian, Democratic, envious, po-faced,
    'kerrect' position that has characterised academia (& particularly
    American academia) for decades now. And which, incidentally,
    poor old Will seemed to me to embody.

    I wonder how many Bush supporters there are hereabouts?
    Talk about conformists!

    I'm interested that you find nastiness boring. I find it quickens
    my pulse in quite a pleasurable way. I expect I've led too
    protected an existence. A few years with the combative French
    & the prospect of a punch-up would, no doubt, seem just another
    of life's more tedious recurrences.

    While it's certainly true that an actorish exhibitionism drives
    most of us posters, I'm not sure the lurkers - at least when
    they complain - aren't subject to the challenge:
    'Well, if you think you can do better...'

    Scottie B.

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Received on Sun Mar 2 08:32:01 2003