California

alec ramsdell a_ramsdell at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 18 11:28:00 PDT 1998



>Dear Alec,
>
>I took Mike Davis's bio-blurb in a different way than you; it looked
more
>like an after-thought to me. Sort of, if you've been wondering what my
>story is all about, well here's some things that have influenced me.
>
>Maybe, Davis believes in democracy rather than meritocracy. I know I
do
>,and, not from an anti-intellectual perspective.
>
>Sincerely,
>Tom
>

Tom,

Yeah, I was quipping with a pomo reading of the blurb, about the jump from meat-cutter to teacher of Urban Theory, in awe of MD's autodidacticism! Louis's post from Lingua Franca gave me some bio info I didn't know, with mention of MD's thoughts on the academy, and his work there.

-Alec

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