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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can we simplify all this with a
question?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If Schwaller does not exist and refuses elaboration
of identity, then the poster(s) of these missives practice(s) coyness,
dishonesty, disingenuity, and jerkdom.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If Schwaller does exist and refuses elaboration of
identity, then he or she practices coyness, dishonesty, disingenuity, and
jerkdom.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Why in the world bother with either response or concern to all
this?</DIV>
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<DIV>Warren Hayman</DIV>
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<DIV>If multiple copies of this occur, blame me and Time-Warner!</DIV>
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<A title=starbliss@gmail.com href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:57
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Baudrillard: The
Childishness of Adults</DIV>
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<DIV>All:</DIV>
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<DIV>Pardon my indulgence in posting about a writer/thinker many will find of
no interest. But given that all of my "adult" life I have been
astonished by the fact that the behavior of adults in positions of power in
the world appears to exhibit some of the most dangerous and destructive
examples of "childishness," the following quote from Baudrillard, from
"Simulacra and Simulations," hit home. Again, this strikes me as
brilliant socio-psychoanalysis: </DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.egs.edu/faculty/baudrillard/baudrillard-simulacra-and-simulations.html">http://www.egs.edu/faculty/baudrillard/baudrillard-simulacra-and-simulations.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>The Disneyland imaginary is neither true nor false: it is a deterrence
machine set up in order to rejuvenate in reverse the fiction of the real.
Whence the debility, the infantile degeneration of this imaginary. It's meant
to be an infantile world, in order to make us believe that the adults are
elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that real childishness
is everywhere, particularly among those adults who go there to act the child
in order to foster illusions of their real childishness. </DIV>
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<P>Ted Moffett</P></DIV>
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