<div dir="ltr">Dear Dror, <br><br> I wish there's a "like" that I can click on! The comparison to Shakespeare play is awesome and the analogy of pornography really brings out the irony! And oh, I remember you and your elephant~ ;) Thank you for sharing this! <br>
<br>Good luck with all the good work!!!<br><br>Best,<br>Zona :) <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Dror Kamir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dqamir@bezeqint.net">dqamir@bezeqint.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
There is nothing new about this idea, but it is still well preformed (just like Shakespeare can be performed on stage over and over again, as long as it is done in an impressive way :-) ).<br>
<br>
This article <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_bus_stops" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_bus_stops</a> (naturally nominated for deletion) is an attempt to prove that well-phrased well-sourced article can be written about any subject.<br>
<br>
Wikipedia has a rule of "no synthesis", namely that creating a theory by combining existing well-established theories or fragments of theories is considered "original research", hence forbidden. However, this article shows quite nicely that this rule is very hard to implement, since novelty (or in this case, absurd) can be spotted only if one has strong intuition about its inconsistency with contemporary common knowledge. Actually, this article begs the conclusion that original research is like pornography - we cannot define it, but we know it when we see it, if our minds are conformed with the mainstream of cultural behavior. But please resist the begging and tell me if you think there are other conclusions :-)<br>
<br>
Dror<br>
<br>
PS - Where I live, whenever someone bring a pompous yet totally pointless topic for discussion, there goes the saying, "We might as well talk about 'The Elephant and the Jewish Question'". I had to bring some elephant into the picture...<br>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
cpov mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:cpov@listcultures.org" target="_blank">cpov@listcultures.org</a><br>
<a href="http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org" target="_blank">http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br></div>