[650] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: my opinion on dartmouth - brand names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wally)
Sun May 13 11:41:29 2001
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 11:44:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Wally <wally@sub-zero.mit.edu>
To: Matt Craighead <craighea@MIT.EDU>
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> How about, because of the moral principle involved? After giving in
> to the PSLM, Harvard has lost pretty much any moral legitimacy it may
> have ever had.
Moral legitimacy started disappearing when the PSLM occupied the building
in the first place -- at which point people became aware of an undesirable
situation w/r/t janitors' wages. I think that (in general) very few people
are upset that Harvard decided to meet the PSLM's demands (in a
watered-down, fuck-off-it's-finals-week form); they should have simply
raised wages a month ago, and said, 'We'll shoulder the cost, figure all
this out later, and look good for the press.'
Hey, does anyone on this list think of time as flowing right-to-left? I
always imagine timelines left-to-right, like in social studies textbooks,
but when imagining time moving forward, I always see it framed (by my
mental cinematographer) so that it vanishes somewhere off to the right, in
the distance. I never see time as a POV shot. I dunno. I guess I'm
wondering if anyone sees their timelines in Hebrew or a similarly-oriented
language, in their head.
W.
