Dear Mitchell Nussbaum, aka "nuttree" @well.com (posting site), You do make your point that a thread should only talk "at people" insterspersed by "cheers of the faithful"--as you describe the possible scene in Chicago's famed "Bughouse Square." I still don't quite know your point. Is it that the titled line should be updated if different from the first "soapboxer?" And as far as Austrian School goes, I NEVER used the Alabamans or the authentic grouping in ANY of my discourse. Someone way back was suggesting the "Rothbard group" represented my reasoning. But, I suppose you were standing on "your "differing soapbox" and didn't quite get things straight?
EW Mitchell Nussbaum wrote: > The Bikies list is not Bughouse Square, and it's not supposed to be. > > Bughouse Square was a place where anybody could stand up on a soapbox and > hold forth on any subject. Listeners could heckle and disagree if they > wanted, but I don't think it was permissible to hijack the discussion and > change the subject: if a speaker was urging his listeners to defend Sacco > and Vanzetti, it was not OK to demand a speech on evolution instead. If > you wanted to talk about evolution, you could get your own soapbox and go > to the other side of the Square. > > The Internet as a whole may be a kind of Bughouse Square (or maybe it's > just a bughouse...) but the bikies list is just one of the soapboxes. > Nobody is censored on this list, but we're basically here to talk about > strategies for making Madison (and the world) more bike-friendly. > > No one is keeping Eric from posting here, but he is not empowered to set > the terms of discussion. If he wants to talk about the "Austrian School" > or whatever, he should get his own soapbox and go somewhere else. > > Eric Westhagen wrote: > [...]> > > And on our general themes: > > > > IT IS OBVIOUS BIKIES IS NOT THE ELECTRONIC VERSION OF A BIKE THEMED "BUG > > HOUSE SQUARE" WELCOMING MULTIPLE OPINIONS AND DISCOURSE BUT IS RATHER A > > "HALL OF THE FAITHFUL WITH A SINGLE RELIGION." SO, CONTINUE PATTING > > YOURSELVES ON THE BACK IN REASSURANCE AND CARRY ON IN YOUR ISOLATED > > WORLD. > > > > EW > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bikies mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
