Re: [Leica] Re: Well, maybe some politics...but surely not this much

[John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>]

Errr...is not this political discussion with insults?

They, two people whose photographic advice I would stake my life on, seem to
be implying the old saw that the opposing view can only be held by people
who were not fortunate to be brought up correctly and who obviously cannot
think clearly. While, in reference to myself, Jim and Marc are undoubtedly
right; surely not everyone who disagrees with these two fine gentleman was,
during their youth, the naysayer's youth not Jim's nor Marc's, dropped on
their heads repeatedly such as was my sad fate?

John Collier

> From: Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>
> 
> At 09:57 PM 5/2/01 -0400, Marc James Small wrote:
>> 
>> The great evil of the American middle-class in the 1950's was a refusal to
>> discuss "religion or politics".  Hence, when their kids wandered off to
>> college, they were fair game for the statist professors they encountered,
>> and had no tools to deal with the rather soft and ill-defined arguments
>> presented them.  The 'campus revolution' of the '60's resulted.  (My own
>> parents discussed politics and religion constantly, so I had an evolved
>> dialectic of my own by the time I was in tenth grade -- if there was a
>> single skill I picked up at the dinner table, it was political discourse!
>> Hence, I was immune to the lure of that 'gospel of greed', the 'lure of the
>> Left'.)
>>
> 
> Congratulations on a great great, in toto, post. And what you said above is
> sooooo true. Fortunately, as with you, my parents discussed politics and
> religion constantly and I was, therefore, immune to the persuasions of
> academia.
> 
> My photographs reflect my heritage.
>