| Re: 14 July 1789 |
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| Dale Houstman (dmh7@citilink.com) |
2003/08/06 08:27 |
Paul Heslop wrote:
>
>
> Yeah, I have one of them # things... but to my blurry eyes it just looks
> like a dead insect on the screen.
> I knew Dale was only joking re the coffee, and he's probably right about
> the group going downhill, though I don't recall, in the short time I've
> been here, it being anything else.
Whether it's "going downhill" or not - of course - depends on one's
expectations. But since it is a group supposedly dedicated to
surrealism, and since surrealism DOES have a VERY well-documented set of
desires and procedures and processes and... on an on...it really doesn't
take a genius to observe that the group has devolved from its own
subject matter.
>I think we did a couple of threads
> with continuing bizarre writings which as far as I was concerned were
> surreal, funny and what i expected, then the usual suspects started
> having a go at everyone and it seems, basically, you can have normal
> conversations about whatever or you can join in the 'bash everyone else
> because they don't do what you do' gang.
This is an example of why the group isn't what it might be: surrealism
is NOT just about "bizarre writings" good or bad: it was (and continues
to be - on good days) a philosophy of cognition and a revolutionary
approach to the transformation of life.
> I mean keith pisses me off royally, but I'm not going to base my life
> round his postings. I killfiled him with reluctance when i couldn't open
> the group without seeing 600 new 'messages' which were just spam. I
> don't know what drives him or his alter ego nor the people who seem to
> be totally engrossed in him.
>
> This group may aswell be dead.
True: but I enjoyed the stuff about instant coffee, so if we could just
rename it "alt.bizarrewritingsandriffsonthemistakesofthemodernworld" I
would have no complaints.
dmh
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