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To: LLCF who wrote (29224)	2/26/2003 12:04:23 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>My 'credibility' is meaningless... Let me restate what I said, then. You engaged in a semantic trope that is a non sequiter, and that does not help your argument. This doesn't make you wrong or make you a bad person, nor does it diminish my personal respect for you. >>the overriding effect of media [modern life?] is to diminish daily sacredness of life by raising the bar on >>virtually every ction to a national or even global level. I agree here. Neil Postman has written extensively on this phenomenon, and I believe him to be on the mark in his criticism. Christopher Lasch made similar arguments, though not confining his critique to media culture. One of Lasch's earlier works, _The Culture of Narcissism_, explored how the materialist tendency in American culture is eventually destructive of the liberties that we cherish. >>I liked the speech, and would not argue against it being courageous, bwtfdik. I have no problem with you liking the speech, and I would say it was not bad as speeches go. Byrd has very strong rhetorical skills. But rather than being an essential, 'courageous' document for the ages, I put it in the same class of political ephemera as filibusters over farm bills or so-called debates on how much of the booty gets showered on West Virginia or Nevada this year or next.