[559] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: "Watch me pull laissez-faire capitalism out of this
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Rios)
Sun May 6 15:48:40 2001
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Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 15:44:30 -0400
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From: Marc Rios <mrios@MIT.EDU>
Cc: wally@sub-zero.mit.edu
>> >You might deem this to be an arbitrary premise, despite its
>> >metaphysicality. However, since you claim to be a metaphysical realist
>> >as I do, this should sway you.
>>
>> I never claimed to be a metaphysical realist. My premises are
>> entirely irrational. I claimed to be a realist, as in I keep it real.
>
>Even though I dig this last sentence, this shit is best kept to private
>email, since (as you may have noticed) only something like three people
>are involved in the conversation anymore, and everyone else is bored.
>
>You're *boring* us.
>
>Wouldn't this conversation be more at home on objectivism@mit.edu or
>something? Wait, I forgot -- you're only allowed to talk on that list if
>you agree with the list owners, isn't that what Craighead said?
>
>Anyway, stop cc'ing the list. Just because we have an email list doesn't
>mean we're bound to use it every day.
>
>W.
hey,
the sudden political discourse on campus is actually kind of welcomed, even
though I read these long rants and I get this hilarious mental image of two
boxers with strangely uneven physiques hopped up on dissassociatives who
just happen to have paper bags taped over their heads and thus look like an
Arthur Gantson rendition of rock em sock em robots. (MIT only admits people
with mad grammatical skeeelz, heh)
I like it. But I agree with Wally, this shouldn't be on this list, and it
really is getting personal, but I enjoy reading it. I spent a lot of time
in high school arguing politics with people, and I was really dissapointed
when the engineers didn't seem to be too interested in that. For example, I
was trying to talk about the strategic defense initative one time, and a
guy retorted thus:
"Dude, shut the fuck up. Stop talking about all this important bullshit.
Let's keep talking about codiene."
I am creating a list for this "important bullshit", and it won't be called
"uninformed-political-rants@mit.edu". This isn't a snide joke on the people
who post. I'm thinking political-discourse, politics-talk, politics or
something along those lines.
Anyone interested? Unless anyone has any better ideas, it will be
politics@mit.edu. Discussion of philosophy and political philosophy is also
more than welcomed.
And I won't tell people that they can't be on my list if they don't agree
with me.
--Marc
