Re: [dinosaur] Prehistoric Road Trip,Tiny Teeth, Fearsome Beasts

[Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:12:52PM -0700, Wendell Ricketts wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruben Safir [mailto:ruben@mrbrklyn.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 12:00 PM
> To: Wendell Ricketts
> Cc: dinosaur-l@mymaillists.usc.edu
> Subject: Re: [dinosaur] Prehistoric Road Trip,Tiny Teeth, Fearsome Beasts
> 
> As for any test of time, your really living in your own
> bubble if you think the hysterical response will term out looking better 
> over time.  I suppose if you think that we will all tern out to be
> progressives in the future fighting for communist social justice, then
> you draw that conclusion.  But most of us that went through the 60's,
> 70's and 80's, not to mention the 1990's, we have seen how inevitably
> self preservation pushed politics to the middle.
> 
> -- 



Actually, I withdraw the entire comment because, frankly, I forget.

You sit behind your computer screen and you read a comment by some
individual and your focused on it, and it stirs your emotions, and you
simply forget that the entire basis of the comment has proven over time
to be inconsequenial.  There is no posperity involved.  Mailing lists
are fittering things, that come and go and who have little participation
and even less consequenses, and this conversation serves little purpose
other than the momentary illusion of complacency, and self-approbation.

The major usefulness of this list is the strong number of new papers
that are anounced and discussed by experts.  Agruing social constructs
here in the hope of changing minds, or venting is an infraction of the
spirit and usefulness of the list, and eventually fruitless.  

Patrick Stewart once said that he never twitters because he has nothing
to say in 128 characters.  In truth, that is the quality of the entire 
social media world.  Why argue on a mailing list?  I withdrawl my
comment and conceed that you are wiser than me in every way possible.


Reuvain