----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:51
AM
Subject: RAT Hey, the start of
conversation!
Ah it is funny to realize that the people on the RAT list reading me
who
already know me as a person understand my language, both the words
and the
spaces and therefor are able to be part of a certain kind of
conversation.
The other people on the RAT list who take me only on
what I have written are
prone to bringing only their own side of the
conversation and destroying,
unavoidably, the balance of the
conversation.
Now that brings us back to previous conversations--how much advance
knowledge of the text/author does the audience need in order to be able to
participate.
To play Devil's Advocate here (and not to attack you, as I do not know
you)--is populism about giving people what they already know and like, or is
it about offering them something new, but something that they can still
find accessible without having to know you and your private code?