Re: Anti-intellectualism in fandom

In article <d40tq3t17sijblg44k69shovl1h0si4f8n@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
mike weber  <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 22:40:44 +0000 (UTC), goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(David Goldfarb) wrote:
>
>>For myself, I think that Sturgeon's Law applies to criticism just as
>>much as to anything else;
>
>Sturgeon's Revelation, assuming you mean the "90%" routine.
>"Sturgeon's Law" is, in fact, something else.  I once read a fanzine
>piece by Sturgeon himself explicating this.

I'd heard about that one time, but I can't really bring myself to
care about it.  Sturgeon's Law is so banal that it's not worth
remembering (and the proof is:  I don't remember it); the Revelation 
is the insight that deserves enshrining as a Law.

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