[Kzyxtalk] from the AVA's "Mendocino County Today", August 3, 2015

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NOT TOO HARSH 




Editor, 




Here is another quotation from Marilynne Robinson that I found intriguing. It is the conclusion of "The Strange History of Altruism," one of the essays in The Absence of Mind: "It has been true in fact that the renunciation of religion in the name of reason and progress has been strongly associated with a curtailment of the assumed capacities of the mind." 

Also, I sometimes wondered whether the AVA criticisms of KZYX were too harsh, but I tuned into a call-in show while driving in Mendocino and it was appalling. The intense self-seriousness was really sad, and so was the assumption that KZYX was important and special. My theory about a lot of these people is they have just enough money not to work, but not enough money to do much of anything else. 




Writing about Tennessee Williams' rough last years, Gore Vidal described people like this as "remittance men," people who were paid off by their families to keep their distance. 




Richard Russell 




San Jose 



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