The Septic Tank in Gilead ha scritto: >>> Polyhymnion is a stupid pretension to a simple Internet function > Why don't you take a look at the page in question: > http://polyhymnion.org/superdirectory.html > As far as I can tell, it is, at best, a list of links to pages by people And what is it at worst? And what is on a mediocre level?
> who are approved by Roman Turovsky as having an acceptable level of > intelligence, culture, philosophical this or that, or qualify to his world > view of himself as an elitist super hero of culture. In short, a list of > Roman Turovsky's own list of sycophants. > There is nothing particularly unusual for a list like that, and there are > virtually thousands like it on the Internet. What I find obnoxious, and a > discharge of hot air, is the pretension, enunciated by RT several times in > this group and elsewhere, that being listed on that page somehow relegates > the listee to a special status of excellence. Makes you think of Aesop's Fables, doesn't it? The Fox and the Grapes: unreachable, therefore sour. > I would posit that whatever excellence any one of those listed has is > entirely independent of the fact that they are listed by Roman Turovsky. I agree wholeheartedly, and I might add that Roman has good taste in people. Mimmo Saba Trieste, Italia __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
