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[Robert Hazeltine]

Hi

It look like you just don't get it.  This kind of posting is what exactly
what I object to and I believe what the discussion has been about.  We
have been putting up with this pontificating for far too long from too
many people.

Get over it, mate.


Rob...
Robert Hazeltine                      Phone:  +61(2) 9678-7621
Senior Analyst/Programmer             Email:  r.hazeltine at uws.edu.au
University of Western Sydney          http://www.uws.edu.au/

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Deus Ex Machina wrote:

> Dear Linkers,
>
> I have been reflecting on what has been happening in this list and if
> you have been following any of the discussion, debates and flame wars
> they follow a very consistent theme.
>
> If you don't want me to stick my head up then I strongly suggest you
> avoid any displays of suffering from the effects of tall-poppyism.
>
> Tall poppyism is particular nasty form of un-enlightenment.
>
> It manifests in many ways, and dare I say it, virtually all debate on
> this list arrises when I step in defend tall poppies.
>
> As examples of tall-poppyism are anti-MS, anti-US, anti-wealth etc. The
> emotions that drive the tall-poppyist are fear and jealous and are often
> expressed as hate. The tall-poppyist often attacks the tools and method
> that allow people to get ahead and support the means for the tearing
> down of tall poppies and redistribution to the not so tall poppies.
>
> Like all good bigots the tall-poppyist enjoys wallowing in the rubric of
> justification for his or her particular infection. Like all bigots the
> tall-poppyist is blind to his or her disease.
>
> Tall popyism is a mental disease just like any other form of narrow
> mindedness.
>
> The cure for tall popyism is the simple realisation that there is no
> correlation between evil and tall poppies. Just as there is no
> correlation between being black and being evil.
>
> The tall poppyist assumes automatically that if you support a tall poppy
> you are opposed to the normal poppies. Examples are that if support
> Microsoft that I must be against open source. This is of course
> non-sense.
>
> The most distilled form of tall popyism is the leftist ideologies and
> the most extreme example is socialism. I am increasingly becoming
> intolerant of socialism and its virulent memes or egalitarianism and
> have posted numerous rejections of this. I have made numerous post about
> the inevitability of difference and on the broad theme that there is
> nothing wrong with difference.
>
> The tall poppyist often thinks of poppy sizes as a zero sum game and
> sometimes assumes that a tall poppy gets ahead at the expense of other
> poppies. This is clearly a logical fallacy.
>
> The tall poppyist needs to study Pareto optimality and understand its
> implications.
>
> I have been asked off list why I am so tolerant of the difference of
> inequality and I think the correct question is why are you not?
>
> I would like to think that from now on we will see a decline in
> tall-popyism on this list as people take a moment to think about what
> they post and check to see if they are indeed suffering from this form
> of malicious infliction. Which is in essence no different to racism,
> sexism etc.
>
> Often the people who are out to "save the world" are in fact the very
> ones who the world needs saving from.
>
> Vic
>
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