On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Pierz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I tend to agree the wrong decision was made here. However > [...] >
However? Barbarians have vandalized a vital scientific instrument and you think a "however" is needed! > > > I disagree with the simplistic terms in which the argument has been > couched: as a dispute between superstitious "imbeciles" and enlightened, > high-minded scientists, almost between darkness and light. > Things should be stated as simply as possible, and the above is not a bad summery of the situation. Not bad at all, except that I don't see the need for quotation marks around the word imbeciles. > > > In Melbourne we "worship" certain sports - cricket and Aussie-rules > football in particular. The Melbourne Cricket Ground, has been the arena on > which the most epic battles of those sports have taken place. It is common > for fans and sports writers to refer to the MCG as "hallowed ground" as a > result. We don't believe in any supernatural entities inhabiting the pitch, > but there are so many culturally significant stories associated with that > patch of ground that it has taken on a semi-mythic status. You can bet if > it was discovered that the MCG was the world's best place for dark matter > detection, you'd start a revolution if you tried to bulldoze it for a > dark-matter detector. > And if that happened I would not hesitate to call the cricket fans barbarians, although they wouldn't be as barbaric as the Hawaiians. Tens of thousand of fans go to and enjoy the Melbourne Cricket Ground every week, but the VAST majority of Hawaiians have never been to the top of that mountain in their life, nor have their parents, nor have their parents parents, nor have they even come close. > > > the reverence of the native Hawaiians to "idiocy" is a typical piece of > cultural imperialism. > Then three cheers for cultural imperialism! John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
