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- From: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
- Newsgroups: alt.california
- Subject: Re: relocation
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 20:51:10 GMT
- Organization: N.I.C.E.
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- Reply-To: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
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- Don Steiny writes:
- mike>reconcile these 2 paragraphs. On the one hand, you say categories
- mike>are useful to organize & communicate &c. I heartily agree; if I didn't
- > ^^^ [note]
-
- > You misread what I wrote. I said "can be." In this case they
-
- You're just splitting hairs. We know you find them useful --
- you used them.
-
- >useful. A previous article had put great weight in the importance
- >of placing people and events on a "poltical spectrum." It used as
- >an argument that political spectrums were important because they were
-
- Then all this discussion, & heavy-weyt philosophical firepower
- brot to bear on it, is nothing more than "Yes it is -- No it ain't".
- You admit yourself that categories "can be" useful & you're quite
- willing to use them yourself -- "trained pigeons" -- but you
- don't seem to like it too much when someone else uses them,
- who happens to oppose your political views.
-