Jonathan Prince on 25 Aug 2000 17:09:12 -0000


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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Rudeness as a public service


I wasn't aware that Hitler subscribed to this list.

jp

At 10:50 PM +1000 8/25/00, Phil Graham wrote:
>Some people say that I have very rude manners when I write.
>
>I take that as a compliment.
>
>[...]
>
>Hitler called sanitised language "coordination". He called the mechanical
>murder of millions of people "the Jewish question", "question" meaning
>here much the same as "issue" means today. He knew very well what
>sanitising public expression meant: the closure of thought; the effective
>creation of a one-track public mind devoid of memory, context, and
>content.
>[...]
>
>And so rudeness is a public service.
>
>Yours,
Phil
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