[the_old_crowd] Intelligent Manifestos

[susiequsie23]

> Sean, wildy throwing caveats like roses into the air:

> I didn't mean to start a thread on ID, although the revelations it produced
> profoundly disturb me. My aim was to illustrate how a person/group with a
> specific agenda can attempt to change the dialogue on a subject to conform to
> parameters they prefer, and ID seemed to me an apt analogy. 

SSSusan:
I'm kinda glad to see Sean post this, because I was getting a bit puzzled. There is definitely a (small, I believe) camp at HPfGU which believes JKR should/outta/MUST correct, fix or explain away certain things in the books in order to make them "acceptable" or "valid," and the camp leader has certainly been correctly identified.  And  words like "reprehensible", "irresponsible" and "stupid" sometimes have been known to accompany a response to posters with an alternative view.  

 

There are also a couple of people who lately have been a bit frighteningly adamant that they KNOW how JKR thinks and what she's doing so intimately that they KNOW character X represents Christian character Y or Christian theme Z.  LL, though, to the best of my recollection, has never joined in this activity, nor have I ever seen anything of ID as a part of his particular requirements for the "correct" worldview.

 

But it may be that what's being said here in this thread is that, rather than the actual *content* of ID, it's the method of going back to "fix" things by finding "evidence" and making it "fit" the "proper" worldview that was being referred to.

 

Siriusly Snapey Susan, school board member who's quite pleased that we haven't had to face the ID issue.  Humongous tax assessment errors and sexual predator band directors have been quite enough to be getting on with, thankyouverymuch.



 


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