keep spreading the word

Post #40,572 by boxley 5/30/02 2:52:29 PM Reply	keep spreading the word do you link back to here when you post elsewhere? thanx, bill TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
Post #40,724 by marlowe 5/31/02 12:28:40 PM Reply	I did once, but hesistate to do it regularly. I'm not sure they'd be able to take the heat here. We're a self-selecting group, and they're another self-selecting group, and the criteria are different. As screamer pointed out, they're a bit, um, thin skinned. I have to tone my style way down there. Besides, a lot of what we say here would just whoosh right over their heads. They're not geeks. They don't really grok the computer subculture. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Truth is that which is the case. Accept no substitutes. If competence is considered "hubris" then may I and my country always be as "arrogant" as we can possibly manage.
Post #40,778 by Ashton 5/31/02 6:37:29 PM Reply	Minor definition quibble.. Recall that geek (or nerd, boffin in UK, brain yada yada) are all pejoratives - signifying (in US at least) an underlying and traditional anti-intellectualism in the mass. Whether from a kind of envy or more likely - a sense of 'weirdness' = "I can't understand what these folks Do with their brains! But they ain't Like Me": It ain't about "computers" or IT - it's about Everything which is more complex than, Push to turn on, and the fact that Some folks know what that switch started 'happening'. (Methinks there's also a lot of other visceral freight within the Murican-variety of this Me/Them dichotomy, but that's for some Psych. thread.) Ashton

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