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- From: dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Paul Dourish)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Oleolimpics
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.201707.27511@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 20:17:07 GMT
- References: <1992Jul25.221938.10686@morrow.stanford.edu> <24232@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- Reply-To: dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Paul Dourish)
- Organization: Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge, UK
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- In article <24232@castle.ed.ac.uk>, eset08@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Strobridge) writes:
- > Must say I more or less agree with this - I LIKE the idea that the
- > Olympiad creates a neutral area where all people and nations set aside
- > political differences and compete on purely atheletic terms. Let each
- > athelete compete as an individual - forget about country, race and creed
-
- Jill, what colour is the sky on your planet?
-
- It's many hundreds of years since this had any fleeting relationship
- to reality, if indeed it ever had any. If we believe that the Greek
- Olympics really caused wars to stop so that everyone could compete in
- a spirit of friendly competition and freedom, we have to ask -- why?
- Do you really believe that the Greeks were just some group of people
- whose motivations and ideals were somehow so different from those of
- our own time; or do you think it was merely an ancient "holier than
- thou"?
-
- Peeve: the belief that somehow people from ages past were endowed with
- some extra humanity to which we should all strive (eg. a return to
- "Victorian values")
-
- --
- Paul Dourish, Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge, UK <dourish@europarc.xerox.com>
-
- "Ain't they got no barbers where you come from, boy?"
-