Which disease are we talking about here? :-(
>From: "Martin Blaine" <throw_the_zoom@...>
>Reply-To: evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
>To: evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [evola_as_he_is] Re: The cost of the cost of knowledge
>Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:15:42 -0000
>
>That was an awesome post. I'm just having a hard time understanding
>your -- what seems to me to be -- elitism. Do you want people to
>read Evola or not? Or only the "right" people? People who come to
>it through this somewhat mystical magnetic attraction.
>
>I guess I'm somewhat pedestrian in my thinking. I have this notion
>that people write books and articles because they're interested in
>conveying a set of ideas. And that in order for those ideas to be
>conveyed, there would have to be this concomitant action on the part
>of readers. Of actually obtaining and reading the tracts the author
>sat down to compose.
>
>Again, Evola is now diseased. Wondering whether he would have
>preferred to have his books read or unread, or read only by a chosen
>few, is rhetorical and senseless. It's out of his hands at this
>point. The decision will be made by us. I vote to make them
>available. Others may try to surprises them. In either case, if
>Evola didn't want people to read him, then it would have been
>smarter never to have picked up a pen, let alone written for
>publication in newspapers.
>
>This is all rather making my head hurt, to tell you the truth. I'm
>certainly not talking about ripping off your excellent exclusive
>translations of his previously-untranslated articles. I don't want
>to deprive anybody of well-deserved compensation for their labor.
>I'm basically only concerned with this one tome, "Men Among the
>Ruins," which I understand to be his seminal political work. It's
>the best thing of its kind I've ever seen, and it's a crime not to
>make it available on the Internet.
>
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