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To: Harrison Bergeron
I've been following the series for more than two and a half years now.

It's essentially a college and post-graduate course in politics, psychology, and sociology all rolled into one, with a lot of history thrown in for good measure. It presumes that the reader can abstract from facts and connect the abstractions to form new concepts. It presumes a level of education or insight capable of recognizing historically observable and theoretically demonstrable phenomena, and the ability to extrapolate probable outcomes.

As for your snappy comeback, all I can say is that you write like a precocious thirteen year old with a new thesaurus. Being thrilled by a Vonnegut story and letting everyone know that you are an enthusiastic Vonnegut fan is not the same as being able to write with Vonnegut's vivid economy.

91 posted on 04/18/2002 4:25:01 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely
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To: Mortimer Snavely, RLK
"It's essentially a college and post-graduate course..."

No, it's not. It's a vanity series published on the internet. No references, no qualitative data, no citations, not one single footnote or credit to an outside source. Just one man's rambling opinions written in a million words or more. And by bringing it here in bits and pieces with quaint theories like the scourge of the "Playboy Philosophy" made it fair game for criticism.

95 posted on 04/18/2002 10:51:23 PM PDT by Harrison Bergeron
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