RE: virus: Second Class Netizens

Gifford, Nate F (giffon@SDCPOS3B.DAYTONOH.ncr.com)
Thu, 12 Mar 1998 10:48:57 -0500

The point I was trying to make is that in some social contexts the mastery
of the paradigm of book can get your ass kicked .... since "book user"
equates to "teacher's pet". Dummies are not entirely self selected ...
Smarties seem to be just as repressively normative. I contend that half the
smarty ass-kicking is as deserved as the dummy chiding.

I'm not advocating any social agenda ... so much as pointing out that IMHO
the net world is beginning to produce cultural antigens that are at least as
effective as access to technology for preserving its integrity.

A couple of people have remarked that they feel inarticulate and so don't
post. I can see where this may be true vis a vis starting new threads ...
but how hard is it to label a post as bullshit followed by evidence? (or
when dealing with MY posts a simple "How True" will make you the envy of the
rest of the group)

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From: Wade T.Smith[SMTP:wade_smith@harvard.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 1998 9:27 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: RE: virus: Second Class Netizens

>the teacher had to help them master the paradigm of "book"

We are left with the problem of why this 'book' was a mystery to the

student. Why do we withhold information (even by withholding the
means to
the information) from other people?

Are we not all students and teachers on this road?

Why is information not free and freely given? What is intellectual
property?

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