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To: JohnM who wrote (30625)	5/24/2002 4:00:19 PM
From: tekboy	Respond to of 281500

reading is, at least partially, about silences true--and knowing where those are, and why they're there, is important. but it's also about sounds. Unless I have some reason to believe that a person can offer something beyond mere noise, why should I bother to waste my time reading them in the first place? By all means, locate the silences of the experts, figure out their frames, and take that into account when reading their stuff. But you can do that via other experts as well. For almost any issue, the "expert" debate is not conclusively different from the "popular" debate, just better argued. And where it is conclusively different, there's usually a good reason for it. As a result, there's simply to reason to waste time with the surface-skimmers, banalists, or blowhards except for pure amusement value, which is something else entirely. tb@lifeisshort.com