Re: [Leica] [OFF-TOPIC SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW] Come on guys

["phong (Doan huu Phong)" <phong@doan-ltd.com>]

Hi Marc,

    Sure, you say this here, but will you allow such deviation from
    YOUR charter on YOUR Rollei list ?  ;-)

    All kidding aside, why do you all think that the LUG is such a
politically
    oriented (and very verbose) photography group ?  Is there another
    photography oriented list, bboard, newsgroup that comes
    even close in this respect ?

    Is it because we are too idle ?    Are politically passioned
photographers
    (pro & amateur) more  predisposed to use Leica ?  Does Leica, because
    of its high price,  cult status, photographic legacy, functionality
attract
    both the yuppy/collector/materialist and the photojournalist/socially
    oriented/communist/anarchist, which are often diametrically opposite
    on the political spectrum and thus causes more sparks than usual ?

- - Phong

- -----Original Message-----
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Come on guys


>I must agree with Oddmund on this.  As Thucydides has Pericles say, "we do
>not say that the man who takes no interest in politics minds his own
>business:  we say he has no business here at all".
>
>In other words, all life is political.  I cannot conceive of a truly
>apolitical life.  This is bound to ooze over into our photography.
>
>Marc
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
>