[Peace-discuss] Fw: Civility?

[David Johnson]

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From: "David Johnson" <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>
To: ""E. Wayne Johnson ???"" <ewj at pigsqq.org>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Civility?


> Well said Wayne !
>
> David Johnson
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: ""E. Wayne Johnson ???"" <ewj at pigsqq.org>
> To: "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
> Cc: <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>; "James H. Dey" 
> <jdey at news-gazette.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 10:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Civility?
>
>
>> Civility is highly overrated.
>>
>> In present day American media and American politics,
>> it is the equivalent of censorship, dumbing-down of the people,
>> and limitation of the range of allowable debate.
>>
>> Anyone who is not seriously pissed off is either in a coma, is deluded,
>> or simply not paying attention, or else deriving so much
>> benefit from the system that they have no desire for change.
>>
>> On 04/02/13 2:41, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
>>> Could we get them to comment on these two columns?
>>>
>>> ~ "How Noam Chomsky is discussed: The more one dissents from political 
>>> orthodoxies, the more the attacks focus on personality, style and 
>>> character," by Glenn 
>>> Greenwald:<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/23/noam-chomsky-guardian-personality>; 
>>> and
>>>
>>> ~ "Truth Is Offensive," by Paul Craig 
>>> Roberts:<http://www.opednews.com/articles/Truth-Is-Offensive-by-Paul-Craig-Roberts-130331-166.html>.
>>>
>>> Or would that be from Neptune?
>>>
>>> --CGE
>>>
>>>
>>> "...human kind / Cannot bear very much reality."
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 30, 2013, at 7:15 AM, David Green<davegreen84 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> http://champaignpubliclibrary.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/y/EB6ADD1886B703DA/B7EDF3D7BCF67881D9767B6002735221
>>>>
>>>> Civility in Politics&  the Media / Thu. Apr. 11 / 7-8:30 pm
>>>> Panel discussion moderated by John Foreman, with former Governor Jim 
>>>> Edgar; former U.S. Congressman Tim Johnson; Rich Martin, head of the U 
>>>> of I Dept. of Journalism; and Jim Dey
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