I think you allowed the Bush comment to divert you from the real point. The 
 point being that avocationals or hobbyists who overlap into a professional 
line  of work often smear the professional with snide and sneering remarks 
to  sidetrack from their own guilt. You all bought into the diversion, when 
in fact  the bottle hunters know they are ruining scientific contexts in 
search of  something they can sell or boast among their equally destructive 
buddies about  finding. They like to tell how they jump a fence, cut locks, and 
rip through  privies during the dead of night. It is like an adrenalin 
rush. 
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
 
 
In a message dated 7/23/2009 6:00:05 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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But that  ties in with the whole inversion: people voted for Bush because 
he was  supposedly someone they could drink beer with, while Gore was too 
much of the  intellectual elite, but now you claim he's anti-intellectual?
Most probably  going off-topic, but I was trying to suggest some relation 
between the "global  warming is religion" discourse with Orwell's "war is 
peace" slogan in 1984,  and his idea that material culture (in the form of a 
photo, but also snatches  of song, remains of old buildings, human memory) was 
the only "fixed point"  upon which we could build our philosophical 
foundations. Then I also remember  the lies that started the war in Iraq & such 
things as Reagan's claims  that trees cause the most pollution, so... I find 
your comment really  paradoxical, coming from an historical archaeologist... 
are you making an  argument or is this an example?

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In  general, we live in an anti-intellectual society where you don't really 
have  to know the facts anymore...simply pretend you know, like Mr. Gore.   


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