Xref: utzoo news.groups:15141 misc.headlines:11894 talk.politics.misc:38167 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!newport.rutgers.edu!waldron From: waldron@newport.rutgers.edu (James Waldron) Newsgroups: news.groups,misc.headlines,talk.politics.misc Subject: YUPPIES, QUEERS and BEAN COUNTERS Keywords: UNITEX/United Nations/Yuppies/Moderator/Newsgroup Message-ID: Date: 28 Nov 89 17:37:44 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 60 UNITEX is alive a well and living in the 'etherNet'..... All rumors reporting our demise our greatly exaggerated. So much for theatrics.... Apparently, there is a major shift and change underway in our society... like the wunderjhare of radical emotive therapy (ala Albert Ellis) and what spawned a new age of self-involved, self-referential brats...voila ---> the age of yuppie enlightenment (actually an oximoron but useful for effect). All this will hopefully pass very soon. "Oh Albert...can this really be the end.. to be stuck inside a network with the braindead blues again..." There is an obvious lack of communication and understanding regarding the recent resignation of the misc.headlines.unitex moderator. This very medium is ideal for fostering such a BIG lack of understanding about what really was involved. I'm convinced that no one really cares. I am told that I am pompous and have no real understanding of how UseNet operates by people (like Brad Templeton...you gotta be kidding) that seem a lot more pompous than I ever did and certainly a lot less knowledgeable of this Network or any network for that matter. Big business, governments, the nonprofit community and the academic environments are suffering from what I've tried to highlight in a simple, straightforward title to this message. The facts don't seem to interest anyone anymore. In fact, what UNITEX was doing or the pioneering effort made by UNITEX (statements made by the National Science Foundation on behalf of UNITEX) was of no importance to anyone except the usually 'bright few'..... Electronic networks are a valuable conduit for real information. Unfortunately they are a poor substitute for channeling peoples hostility, frustration and bitterness or whatever new dilemmas are pressing hard on modern yuppie man. If anyone out there is engaged in research or actually trying to DO something, then I'm sure my title description needs little explanation. For the others..... it's simply not worth my time to explain..... 'You are what you pretend to be...'Brad.... 'so be careful what you pretend to be....' K. Vonnegut Dr. James Waldron aka the 'real' Dr. J ===> ROCK ON! David Essex (A collegue of Dr. J) [He knows the 'truth']. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com