Re: OT .. Virus Alert.. This one is REAL..

[Bill Troop bill@xxxxxxxx]

> Like somebody on the street giving you a
> pill and saying: "Swallow this". Would you do that?

Well, no, but apparently a lot of people would. In the case of
virus-clickers, I wonder how many really do it unintentionally? How many do
it out of self-destructiveness? How many do it as "slaves ignorantly
sabotoging master's machine"? How many do it for some sort of thrill, or
just absent-mindedly? If anyone is interested in the absorbing subject of
Stupidity, a new book on this subject by Avital Ronell is due this month.
Whatever her faults, she is as close as we get to having a critic of
Nietzsche's calibre amongst us. (If I may be permitted a blurb.)

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f01/ronell.html for those curious about an
author of 15 years standing whose somewhat Nabokovian grasp of English has
yet to be noticed by, for instance, the New York Times.