> > the non-academics, then, need to pipe up and create their own
> > conversations. this list is mainly NON-academic in its subscribership.
> > if those who don't like the level of dialogue would post more often, it
> > wouldn't be so intolerable now would it!?
> >
>
>but what of the rest of us (population of one?) with neither the ability
>to tell the differance between derrida and descartes, nor the intimate
>familiarity with the use of the word fuck, gained through months of
>slumming with the masses? are we relegated merely to representing the
>common sense view? ;-) this sucks!
>
> --ravi
whatever is on the other side of steve's "non-academic" --or even mine--it is not homogeneous, anyway (nor should those who comprise the "academics" on this list be said to always engage in academic discourse in a homogeneous way, either.