Spreading rumors

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>doug asked originally if anyone had heard the rumor.  no one seemed 
>especially interested, as far as i could see.  and aside from that, 
>that there is such a rumor spreading is, in and of itself, 
>interesting since rumors don't fly for no reason.  rumors are 
>indicators of something else and we could, possibly, engage in some 
>interesting speculations in that regard--much as, i suppose, 
>pugliese and i find paleoconservatives rumor mills regarding the New 
>World Order fascinating for what they say about people's desire to 
>explain what we otherwise refer to as capitalist domination, etc.
>
>kelley

If you enjoy this sort of analysis (rumors as imaginary responses to 
the imaginary understanding of real problems), you should have come 
to M-Fem when fans of MacDworkin were going on about "snuff films." 
It's no fun trying to talk sense with them, though, as I said offlist.

Yoshie