Originally Posted by roachboy

cyn: thanks for that clarification.
it is hard to know how to take things in messageboards sometimes--intent seems almost always to be garbled when what one is thinking is crunched into this form.
i hope that the political dimension to the questions i posed was evident: your posts push on one of the main problems faced by anyone who works in opposition to a dominant or near-dominant ideology--that you have to explain your arguments--folk who work within that ideology have the everyday frame of reference that explains their arguments for them, so shorthand is possible.

how i write is how i write. i dont necessarily expect everything to communicate with no residuum. i write this stuff while i am taking breaks from doing other things. i think about it, write what i have to say, and return to the other tasks. like now.