Keeping My End Up

[Carl Remick]

>While I often understand little that goes
>on, it does appear that the arguments are not
>among specialists who share a discipline.
>They are cross-cultural (culture in the
>mundane sense of a span of interests,
>disciplines, and related reading).  If you're
>on the list, that's what you're into.  No point
>in gnashing teeth because someone hasn't/won't
>read the source for some idea that you would
>like to impress upon them.
>
>If it's good enough to read, it's good enough
>to paraphrase and simplify.  If promulgating
>the idea is for the greater good, then defending
>it to the unwashed is your mission. (Did Carrol
>say that? Another startling unity of views.)
>If you can't convey it to an LBO-talker, how
>could you hope to do so to a general audience?
>And if you don't aim for such an audience,
>what's your trip?

Excellent points, Max.  Many thanks.

Carl

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