Just a few questions | 95 comments (95 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Migeru, could you, our anyone else using the term, elaborate on this idea of "connections"?

I know what connections are, but I am curious as to what people mean on ET when they say, "we don't have connections" or as you just said maybe people "with connections" will join ET.

I am coming from the perspective that if connections are needed, and one doesn't have connections, then one needs to go and make connections.

So I am wondering what people on ET percieve that these people "with connections" will offer ET?

Second, where is Ritter these days? I haven't seen him in a long, long time.

by aden on Tue Nov 21st, 2006 at 09:52:16 AM EST
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Re: My take (none / 1)

See Migeru's link to his farewell message (in which he called ET spectators of politics).

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Nov 21st, 2006 at 09:54:55 AM EST
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Re: My take (none / 0)

Thanks DoDo. I missed that post. -One ETer's response to Barbara's questions.

by aden on Tue Nov 21st, 2006 at 10:07:11 AM EST
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Re: My take (none / 0)

Being a full-time paid operative of a political party it's too easy to say what he said.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 21st, 2006 at 10:08:43 AM EST
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Re: My take (none / 1)

Do you have power? Do you know anyone who has power? At the level when you can make things happen because you know people who can make things happen? Then you have connections.

As for going out and making connection, I should write a diary about how cliquish the English are.

The need to have "connections", and "you are who you know", and mutual back-scratching, were so contrary to my parents' (especially my father's) ethos that I can't say I have any either. And if I have them, I don't know about it, or if I knew I wouldn't want to use them.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 21st, 2006 at 10:06:16 AM EST
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Just a few questions | 95 comments (95 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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