-Caveat Lector- 3/10/2003 8:39:09 PM, klewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>IMO, your stated objections to this program are based on unimportant externalities: >where the course is being held; what that the particular city smells like; the fact that >it's called an internship. And I respect your opinion. However, I will admit that most of what I am working on is impressions. As I pointed out, I changed my university programs because I wasn't sure I was getting the correct impressions about what I was learning. (Subsequent travels to Europe confirmed my suspicions.) I am well aware of the fact that I am not located in the midst of that about which I am drawing some inferences. Yet, we don't normally draw conclusions about subjects because we have complete and intimate knowledge of the events, personalities, and conditions of a certain body of knowledge or experience. What I am looking at is more along the lines of identifying the same kinds of things over time, a sort of trend analysis sampling sort of thing. Obviously, I've been to LA and have been in the area long enough and enough times to know what contributes to the 91-octane mornings and my impressions of them. Traffic and heat and inversion layers and smog alerts and how it creeps up over the mountains ... that sort of thing. The news tells us about "some interns" and I'm well aware that this represents a small percentage of the number who are/have been there and further represents a small percentage of what good or bad things get reported. That doesn't -- going back to my original comment -- distract from the fact that DC has quite a criminal problem, aside from the government activities. AnyTown, USA, doesn't work here. Maybe AnyBigCity will. And we have all learned from being in good places as well as bad. But when the location and the faculty is concentrating on one location that is supposed to represent all locations, therein lies my problem. We don't even know what the intern selection criteria is. We (they?) don't know who they are going to see and where they're going to go. Yet, if they are taken from places with the intention of taking them to a place that is the shining city upon the hill and they find that DC is not much different than where they came from, what's the point? Could they not have gained something similarly representative from their own -- representative -- state capital? In either case, they could have a guided (complete with blinders) tour anywhere. But sometimes the "blind" can even know more than the supposed "sighted". Again, I am focussing on impressions (and a little research and some inside knowledge). I don't pretend to know all the ins and out, whos and whats, whys and wherefors, ifs, ands, or buts. But sometimes it makes more sense to not be overwhelmed by too many details in order to see what the overall impression is. I tend to be unlike the Pointilists who made their 'impressions' by memorising and categorising every dot of paint, they who were often too blind to even appreciate the work from a distance when it was completed. So, what they "saw", they could not even "see". A<:>E<:>R <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
