roundtable: Re: OP-ED ON TV - PUBLIC

roundtable: Re: OP-ED ON TV / PUBLIC

Re: OP-ED ON TV / PUBLIC

Jeff Briggs (jbriggs@capital.edu)
Mon, 9 Jan 1995 17:28:10 +0500 

Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 17:28:10 +0500
From: jbriggs@capital.edu (Jeff Briggs)
Message-Id: <9501092228.AA16685@athena.capital.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: OP-ED ON TV / PUBLIC


With all due respect (and apologies for my past rudeness), you are 
enmeshed within a capitalist, materialistic ideology that perceives 
every thing in terms of the interchnage of commodities, also regarding 
these communications as those between "wastedumps", instead of human 
beings, which is what we are. Although I expressed it too hotly, I was 
correct in my intuition that you a fundamentalist capitalist - which 
unfortunately does indeed inhibit your ability to reason.

     Without intending to be condecending:

         Thoughts, ideas, and written communications are not 
commodities, however superficially they appear to resemble them.  
Thought, to paraphrase Pascal, is the noblest human capacity. That is 
not a 'liberal" idea, but simply an idea.You did not arrive at your 
way of thinking by examining a wide variety of opposing philosophies 
and having your intuition light a bulb in your brain; you picked it up 
from your culture, which reinforces its mechanistic messages endlessly 
in our media. Hence my reference to your need for "regrooving" in order 
to start reexamining everyone of your basic premises afresh, if you 
have the desire and capacity.
	
Regards,
Jeff Briggs
jbriggs@capital.edu

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