Regarding A/E and A/UN

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Brian,

A quote from another list MAY BE suitable for your lament about
a lack of response here:

"Communication by allowing others to observe your actions can
be far more powerful than abstract arguments in favor of that
action."

You may recognize this as an example of pragmatist advice
against MERE ideological argument.

Your postings here have sent me off to do work on my own rather
than flatter you for yours (although I'm about to stroke you a
bit).

I often refer in real space to your postings as an excellent
example of what I look for on the Net:  sustained threads,
even, if by only one person, that post good work and not just
cite famous people, take pot shots at others, or play posters
and lurkers and trollers unproductive games like me.

Your focus on electricity could not have a more appropriate
forum than this electronic medium, which is an architecture in
the making well beyond the physical apparatus, and well beyond
the wizards of computers and software and hardware who now
claim mastery of it.

So, no matter what may happen to your academic program, and I
am sure there are many of us who have been pummeled with your
type of recent experience, you should keep at it here and
elsewhere in the electronic spheres -- atmos, stratos, oceanic,
geo, bio, autobio, and so on.  Your benighted director will
eventually see the light bulb come on, maybe can already see
that you are way ahead of him/her.

FWIW, I was not so gently kicked out of the study of philosophy
and advised to go back to study architecture so I would not be
a drain on productive society.  Now look what happened:  I do
both badly.  Stick to your agenda as an architect, make it as
broad and deep and enduring as you like, and to hell with the
narrower perspectives and avocational pigeon-holes.

Check John Dewey, Richard Rorty, Cornel West and the other
American pragmatists for wisdom on dealing with hide-bound
dead-brain categories of what is right and wrong in worldly
affairs, free of ideological conceits.

You will see that the doers eventually wind up propping up the
weakhearted ideologues, and all too often killing and dying in
the process, in war and peace, so just develop a somewhat
thicker skin and a few more physical and mental muscles, and a
healthy dose of self-preservation, to set by example what
others can only daydream and profess about -- dreamers
covertly, pragmatically, resigned to their miserable failures
like me, trying to redeem ourselves and lost causes through
energentic (pun) youngsters like you, with barely concealed
envy and fear of looming nothingness.

You will learn to leverage the insecurities of those trying to
control you, it's laughably easy.  Try a little more ridicule,
you are off to a good start with your last post.  Sometimes it
helps to do it to yourself, too, to get free of the tyranny of
seriousness we pick up from all too serious institutions and
career-mongers and media-obsessed maniacs.