I am generally trying to ignore snide comments, but I would like to use this one as a teaching, or perhaps deconstructing, example.
However, this form of discourse is not only annoying and provoking animosity, but above all - highly counterproductive. It ends the dialog and encourages sectarianism - which is basically the tendency for surrounding oneself with people who will not pose any challenge - a very rational strategy in a field infested with self-styled inquisitors. I have a reason to believe that this is not your intention here, so please be aware of the effects of snide comments directed at the specific interlocutors whose views you oppose - which btw is different from snide or derogatory comments about a social phenonomenon or a group of people defined in abstract and general terms. Wojtek <<<<<>>>>>
i've a hunch that the pool of regular posters is much smaller than number of folks subbed to list, so a few dominate lbo bandwidth, i don't consider most of what appears on my screen to discourse/dialogue, people generally respond/reply to posts that alternately 1) 'attack' them personally or their politics or some such individualistic crap; 2) offer them an opportunity to flex their intellectual/ironic/turn-a-phrase muscles; 3) provoke them in some other way...
you just spent how many words lecturing me - and others on the list - for making a snide remark, in this case, about you, which apparently *provoked* you to issue a response, guess i've got to keep remining myself that i really do know better, i really do... mh
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