On May 8, 2009, at 9:19 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
Learn to use a mail filter, instead.
I don't mind drivel most of the time unless it is from case-hardened
subscribers. I simply resent seeing my subject heading being
associated with drivel. In any case, I do appreciate your
willingness to use a more appropriate subject heading. I do hope
that everybody else will refrain from posting under the subject
heading "Jared Diamond, etc." since you obviously have no interest
in what I wrote.
I don't know where to start in responding to this. (a) you want us to
accept your judgement, especially in the terms in which you
characterise it, of our thoughts and the effort we put behind them,
(b) change the subject so that you are not in some remote way
associated with our thread, (c) believe that my post, which quoted a
section of yours and responded directly to it (before Carrol morphs it
into a rant against me and his perceptions about me), is an indication
that I have no interest in what you wrote. What you mean by (c) is, I
think, I have no interest in understanding the issue in the way you
desire your reader to and stay within the bounds set implicitly in
your analysis. So, you write (approximately) that Jared Diamond echoes
older Western attitudes towards alien groups and cultures. My
response, which I guess you find unpalatable, is that such an attitude
from Diamond is unsurprising to me (and I explained why that is so).
I guess its not just the blogistan that is looking for an echo chamber.
--ravi
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