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Date:  Tue, Mar 14, 1995 09:40am EST
From:  SorinM7998
Subj:  "flamer" explains re: chiapas radio message
To:      higginsj@oak.cats.ohiou.edu, higgins.5@osu.edu

Dear mr. Higgins,
My comments on a previous posting calling for refurbishing the radio station
of the insurgents in Chiapas, Mexico was a cry of exasperation, not necessary
an apodictic, self-righteous "flame". I said very honestly why I find it
outlandish to persevere in the same mistake of an earlier Western generation
of "idealists", namely of helping today's "revolutionaries" only to give our
even more idealist-progressist scions the opportunity to fight for a good
cause, namely cleaning
our mess (land-mines, refugees and so forth). I expect you will find these
issues vital, and a bit further away from Geraldo (even though I don't find
his social role totaly despicable as others do)


My intervention might have been verballytough, but hey, not everybody is
suppossed to mimic the elitis game of theories and words too often some
academics in the US stubbornly shroud themsleves in when the castle of their
figments burns around them. I don't buy the idea of answering with long
essays and academic disertations to a message which, as in the Chiapas case,
almost does fundrising on the net for terrorist-revolutionaries. To buy
weapons, to support shameless pro-violence propaganda, and to wrap everything
under the folds of "development and democracy", that's something I found too
conceited, of almost victorian imperialism a rebours.

Now, about the purpose of the newsgroup. The Internet is an image of the
outside society. It cannot be ruled by some insiders rules. If only like
minded people are to meet here what is the purpose ? How do you expect to
talk about democracy and development when only "dignified", tolerant by
politeness people are to discuss or accept the same old-new issues?

In a very lofty way, excuse my blunteness, but is part of my third world
education in Romania, you would like to talk about democracy and mainstream
media in Mexic. You imply that my opinions are raw and uninformed, even more,
"uncurteous". You might find that I am a professional journalist, I worked in
Romania, Hungary, England and the US. I worked with minorities, and with
peasants as dispossesed as the Chiapas folks. Have you ever smelt the rancid
odor of raw blood mixed with dust? You get that thing nailed to your cortex
forever. I don't want to see any ignorant peasant lured by even more ignorant
revolutionaries, into bloody adventures nobody could heal afterwards for
decades.

I have opinions and I want the people a live with to know them. it is not
mandatory to read my message, but if you make that option you might learn
something new. I am not interested in developement or media for completing a
disertation or for a pitiful tenure position at some cozy US University.
There are big, terrifying things out there. They are made of tears, blood,
hate and compassion. Our words, on the net or in the ether just reflect that,
they do not change reality.

I welcome any comment, even "flames".  I don't mind.
Sorin Matei, radio producer,  516-584-5317. By the way, my message was not
anonymous, you had my e-mail address