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yes, I do have other interests, but.
Aug. 9th, 2008 11:32 amIn fact, I have to send e-mails regarding rehearsals for the next performances, but while on a roll re the preceding posts and their interminable clarifications (which clarify nothing, of course):
In every age there are those who claim that the dominant paradigms are wrong.
Sometimes the dominant paradigms are wrong. Sometimes these people are sick puppies.
More often, the dominant paradigms are wrong, but these folks are sick puppies anyway.
Hence the enormous confusion in sorting out the worth of their cultural and would-be investigatory contributions. The neurosis, nonsense, and occasional valid insights come as a single package, and few people are inclined to unwrap it, much less evaluate the contents.
The ones who do evaluate the contents are usually not qualified to do so, while the scholars writing about such folk tend to be specialists in the history of packaging.
In every age there are those who claim that the dominant paradigms are wrong.
Sometimes the dominant paradigms are wrong. Sometimes these people are sick puppies.
More often, the dominant paradigms are wrong, but these folks are sick puppies anyway.
Hence the enormous confusion in sorting out the worth of their cultural and would-be investigatory contributions. The neurosis, nonsense, and occasional valid insights come as a single package, and few people are inclined to unwrap it, much less evaluate the contents.
The ones who do evaluate the contents are usually not qualified to do so, while the scholars writing about such folk tend to be specialists in the history of packaging.
