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

[Tim Gregory]

apparently, yr still a carbuncle enjoying the ride/view from the hull of local
radio, john...sorry you tore up yr ticket...
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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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