Joanna wrote:
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> Judging from the language of the text you quote, these people are
> just.....graduate students.
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> Nothing wrong with that I suppose. But extremely limiting.
This is simply not true. "The '60s" would not have happened without the extensive involvementof graduate students. Living in the world today is limiting, but there is noting at all _inherently_ more "limiting" in being a graduate student than in being a Venezuelan peasant.
The Platypus people are a very special _selection_ of graduate students, selected by a process that almost makes bad politics unavoidable. But being a grad student as such is, I repeat, not a whit more intrinsxi zlly limiging than any other social position and probably even one of the lsess limiting positions in the U.S. today.
Carrol