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- From: " Peter F. Updike " <pfupdike@mailbox.syr.edu>
- Subject: elitism
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.171611.6233@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: mmdf@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Mail System)
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- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:16:11 GMT
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- My first post as I've been waiting for some slack air time.
- I've been a bit intimitated into putting something up on the net because
- at times it seems that the general attitude is that the new guy doesn't have
- anything worth saying, or else, whoa unto them, they make some cardinal
- error, or ask a FAQ or about tapes and then it's toast time.
- In the couple of years that I've been exposed to the phish scene, it
- seems like people have been trying to close ranks behind themselves. I don't get the feeling that its "lets share a good thing together" as it
- was a scant two years ago, instead it's more like "Let's keep this one for
- ourselves". I would certainly agree that too much inclusion runs the risk of
- overexposure and a certain change in atmosphere, but isn't it worth the chance?
- There is a certain amount of inherent elitism when you are on the
- inside of a joke (i.e. the fall down signal), but to compound this natural
- elitism into a dichotomous attitude of "being on the bus or off"is,
- in my mind, counter productive to the idea which says that the whole is
- greater than the sum of its parts. We are greater than the sum of our parts.
-
- happy holidays and Peace to all
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