Re: (idm) The 'I' in 'IDM'

From Michael Upton
Sent Mon, Jun 22nd 1998, 05:07

On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Che wrote:

| As for anyone that has a problem with the word intelligent, there's
| nothing wrong or pretentious about being intelligent. 

In the past there have been a lot of instances where one little group of
people has gone around saying what's intelligent and what isn't. I think
that's what bugs me about it a bit. Like intelligent isn't funny,
intelligent isn't black, intelligent isn't emotional, etc etc...

None of these are explicit in the word "intelligent", but I often feel
like that's how it's used. So, I reckon it definitely can be
"pretentious", in the sense of people saying "it's better than being
stupid", with the irony that they don't see how stupid they are being in
their closemindedness. No, that's not referring to Che. Well, it might be,
but not intentionally. :-)

Jeez, this looks a bit moral-highground-y. In practice, I'm a big believer
in definition coming from usage. So, it's like, who cares what it stands
for - "IDM" means "the music we discuss on here"...

Michael

"You know what? I'll call him Jet Jaguar..."
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html

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