A couple of days ago Denise wrote: ----------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------- 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. ___________________________________________________________ Errol Vieth Department of Communication and Media Studies/ Faculty of Arts Central Queensland University ROCKHAMPTON MC QLD 4702 AUSTRALIA e-mail [log in to unmask] phone + 61 79 30 9502 fax + 61 79 30 9501 ___________________________________________________________