[Inquiry] Re: And Passing Away

[Jon Awbrey]

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APA.  Note 8

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GR = Gary Richmond
JA = Jon Awbrey

Re: APA 7.  http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-December/003330.html
In: APA.    http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-December/thread.html#3307

JA: Maybe we should cast an eye or two or three to the self-fullfilling policy
    that says that disciplines cannot be developed through in depth discussions
    in public view, and ask who polices that policy, and why, no matter what gnu
    fangled gee-gaws come down the pike.  Is it not more like that oo deferral of
    responsibility, that same old gambit that renders all questing purely academic?

GR: In consideration of the Peirce forum, for example, one might reflect on this at:
    http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/people/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm:

Gary,

I've read it.  It seems a little outdated, but that is not my concern.
In my life I have discovered, always the hard way, that it's pointless
to argue with certain categories of people.  I will not divert you with
an up-to-date list, but merely give you the list as it stood when I went
off to college:

   1.  Infants
   2.  Parents
   3.  School Principals
   4.  Persons Acting 'In Loco Parentis'
   5.  Members of the Texas Highway Patrol

The same order of experience has taught me that discussion
of a list's policy on that list involves people in several
types of Rustler's Paradoxes, and so I have no plans to go
down that road at any speed.  We cannot spend all our time
in meta*discussions, and I would not be spending this much
if several more productive avenues of inquiry had not been
barricaded of late by the Texas Information Highway Patrol.

In my experience, the manager of any discussion forum, and
I say this quite generally with respect to the sample that
I have known so far, never participates in that forum on a
par with the other participants, and never as anything but
the manager.  All statements of the manager have the force
of directives, not items up for discussion, and pretending
otherwise is just pretending.  I guess it's fun to pretend.

That is the last that I will say on that, as my real point,
and my long-term concern, is really much broader than that,
but I see that I'll have to make more effort to sharpen it.

But tomorrow ...

Jon Awbrey

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