Well said, Emily; and might I suggest Mary Burke White?
there's a couple thousand words, at least
S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@xxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
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Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: conspiacy talk talk talk
At 8:56 AM -0500 10/23/05, Don Roberts wrote:
Now to the point. I
sent the post quoted below last week and it helped for all of about 1 day.
I know these are all pressing and troublesome issues but many of us read
and deal with them in other forums and our lives. Can we get the hell back
on topic here? Or isn't photography important anymore? Has television
made this all irrelevant?
Well, TV is photography by its very essence.
But it's interesting about how hard it is for us to stop talking about
this political situation we Americans have allowed to come about.
I think it reflects that there are a lot of people really rather worried,
in a new way, unable to turn their attention aside so well as before
Katrina.
It's not just this list. I just finished reading a usenet newsgroup I
belong to of people interested in English folk music. The whole Nelson
thing has made an opening in this group that mostly talks about how Martin
Carthy tunes his guitar to accompany a song, or which folk club in
Northumberland is presenting some performer. Of course, any discussion of
Nelson as war hero can't avoid discussing the course of British history -
which brings them right back to the mess we've made of everything we've
touched in the last 5 years. They're not exactly a conservative bunch over
there, they are folkies after all, but I suspect many of them have a
better grip on their own history than most of us have on ours. The
discussion about what benefit came to England by Nelson's showdown at
Trafalgar brings them right up against today in Iraq.
I know there are people on this list who live in what we think of as the
red states. I know I live in a bubble up here in Masschusetts. Sometimes
I think it would be good for me, as a citizen, to enlarge my email news
sources to include a paper in Charleston, Missoula and Colorado Springs.
But if we can't let go of this dismay so many of us seem to be feeling,
perhaps we should be trying to have a real discourse with those with other
opinions?
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Emily L. Ferguson
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New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography
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