From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 14:54:26 MST
> An Open Letter to the Membership:
>
> The permissiveness and indulgence shown toward the
> indifference, if not contempt, of young adults toward
> mature standards of conduct is not merely an evasion
> of duty but a reinforcement of adolescent narcissism,
> which explains as well as anything the mediocrity of
> contemporary American Culture.
So let me get this straight--"mature standards of conduct"
mean that when you want to be rude and insulting you should
use pompous language to hide it instead of plain English?
I'll take a good old honest plainly-understood "fuck you"
over a "your adolescent narcissism is exemplary of the
mediocrity of American culture" any day.
P.S. you can't blame my narcissism on adolescence--my bald
spot is older than some posters here.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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