A couple of days ago Denise wrote:

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Och, we're just not postmodern enough, I fear.  I'm used to getting

shot down.  Some people just seem to want to make other people's

lives a plethora of guilt and self-flagellation, punctuated by

loud and fervent sanctimonious diatribes about the Derridean

margins of chocolate chips.

 

Or something like that.

 

I make a pretty rotten academic--but a damned GOOD film critic, I

think.  Alas, criticism doesn't pay (much) compared to teaching

18-year-olds the joys of writing, and so I'll stick around academia

and vociferously refuse to be assimilated.

 

"We are Borg; you will be assimilated|" sounds an awful lot like

"we are Politically Correct; you will be sensitized|" to me.

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Just like to say that I have followed your posts in all the recent

controversies.  You sound like a refreshing blast of water in the

superheated swamp of resentment, anger and guilt.

 

Like you, I refuse to be assimilated into the othodoxies of this

department; the same orthodoxies that one must proclaim in order to be a

'real person'.  As my kids would say: suckful!

 

Keep the keyboard working.

 

 

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Errol Vieth

Department of Communication and Media Studies/ Faculty of Arts

Central Queensland University

ROCKHAMPTON MC  QLD  4702

AUSTRALIA

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