[extropy-chat] Re: Famous author self destructs in public! Filmat eleven.

[Samantha Atkins]

I consider it boorish because:

a) It is a way of getting the last word long after anyone much is  
still interested in the topic or has the relevant chain at hand or  
interest in digging it up;
b) the prose is dense enough that considerable energy is needed to  
deconstruct it;
c) such deconstruction and response will likely again be responded to  
only after too long a period.  Recurse at will;
d) the topic matter is largely irrelevant to this list;
e) the manner of discussing it is largely sectarian.

- samantha

On Sep 14, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Brett Paatsch wrote:

> Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
>
>> John,
>> Why are you resurfacing this tired "discussion" months and months   
>> after it originally was brought up in a completely different   
>> context?   Unless you are somewhere really far away and thus  
>> light  speed lagged I see no reason for this rather boorish behavior.
>>
>
> I don't agree with you here Samantha. John  C Wright has obviously
> spent considerable time putting his words and thoughts together. I
> don't agree with what I have read that he has most recently written
> but I respect his obvious effort and his concentration span. I  
> don't find his continued interest boorish at all.
> I think its actually a good thing for people to be able to pull out  
> posts
> from the past and pick up, or try to, where the conversation left off.
> I often wonder if many people can even remember what they have
> said a few days after they have said it. It makes it hard to get much
> depth in conversations with them.
> By doing what John has done he invites deeper consideration. His
> invitation for others to rejoin a conversation may of course be  
> declined but it isn't boorish of him to make it as he has done.
> Brett Paatsch
>
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