Re: Paul's

["Paul" <pauljohnson@mountsett.freeserve.co.uk>]

hope you enjoyed your bike ride!

p x

-----Original Message-----
From: jjrd@sympatico.ca <jjrd@sympatico.ca>
To: f_minor@email.rutgers.edu <f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
Date: 21 July 1999 19:26
Subject: Paul's


>
>Greetings, all.
>
>Paul's reaction to my **now famous night letter** (sic!) -- thanks to all
>of you who wrote me private on it, it made my next night... -- had me think
>that the f_minor list is somehow a pure reflection of Gould's life, as far
>as "that ambiguity of late-modernity" is concerned. Indeed, there is a case
>to be made about technology having been the main reason for Gould's
>isolation and melancholy. The very technology that made him able to
>communicate with the entire world also pushed him out of the social mode
>and into solitude. This is the very same thing that shall happen to
>somebody who spends too much time on the internet, aint it? But then again,
>when I look at kids today navigating for hours and hours and chatting with
>a passion with people from all over... I say to myself that "the reality of
>being a social entity" is only what we are capable of processing at any
>given moment with the background and conditions that have been configured
>by our genes and our experience as a being. On that note, there is this old
>green bike that is awaiting me in the alley... it's always time for fresh
>air.
>
>
>
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