Thanks for pointing out the ironies Dave. When you say "... how principles can be applied ... even hypocritically ... they aren't principles anymore. They're just convenient rationalizations." This has pretty much been the root of my own agenda.
Paradoxically of course, the global media corporation promoting the "small is beautiful" message, may be right even if their motives are in some sense hypocritical or even cynical, let alone ironic. Regards Ian On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:08 PM, david buchanan<[email protected]> wrote: > > John: > > Even though I was trying to make a serious point, it was also supposed to be > funny and I laughed my ass off while writing it. Of course, giant global > corporations celebrating smallness and the little red schoolhouse is > hilarious enough all by itself and needs no help from me. I think it shows > pretty clearly how principles can be applied quite inconsistently, > arbitrarily and even hypocritically. Naturally, when you do that to > principles they aren't principles anymore. They're just convenient > rationalizations. > > > Anyway, thanks for being such a good sport about it. That's mighty big of > you. Seriously. > > > dmb > >> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:00:04 -0700 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [MD] Another parallel >> >> Bravissimo, applause and laudation. It refuted me in many ways, but I love >> it anyway. Yay you, David M. Buchanan, or should I say cheesie mcshmaltz >> the 3rd. >> sincerely. >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. > http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
