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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/27/21 7:53 AM, Frank Wimberly
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<div dir="auto">Most people would spell that, "nanner, nanner,
nanner", I think. It's heard on playgrounds all over, or it was
in the 40s and 50s. In Mexico they sing, "lero, lero, lero",
using the same notes.<br>
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<p>It would seem there are many regional and quasi-generational
dialects of Silly Taunts... I believe my playground training
involved something more like "Nyah, Nyah, Nyah!" with a sprinkling
of allusions to one's grandma wearing army boots. We also were
issued lariats along with dodge-balls and were allowed (up to
injury that drew blood) to chase one another around and try to
"head" or "heel" one another. I never understood what the
teachers were thinking, though I did enjoy the "game", both as
roper and ropee... go figure.<br>
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<p>I think this thread backs into a metaphor of
mail-list-as-playground/sandlot and some of the kind of bullying
the Jon tried to reference. <br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 7:35 AM
uǝlƃ ☤>$ <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">gepropella@gmail.com</a>>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have no
idea how to respond to this post. I don't know what "neener,
neener, neener" means, unfortunately. But the grand narrative
I'm talking about is the (I suppose Rawlsian?) social
contract, including the wall of ignorance. That's distinct, I
think, from the altruism of joining a collective effort to
take responsibility for the future. The social contract
argument seems fundamentally self-serving, especially the wall
of ignorance fulcrum. It's a neo-liberal rhetorical device
used to bridge the chasm between self-serving and pro-social
perspectives.<br>
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It's that bridge that is the grand narrative of the social
contract. If you don't buy into that story, then the whole
thing comes crumbling down. Most of my generation (X) and the
Y's and Z's are calling the emperor naked at this point. So
when you tell the story of the pre- and post- civil war
understanding of the constitution to anyone under, say, 50
years old, you *might* want to consider that.<br>
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For some reason, I feel like King Arthur at the base of the
French castle in The Holy Grail: <a
href="https://youtu.be/QSo0duY7-9s" rel="noreferrer
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On 10/26/21 1:03 PM, <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com"
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>
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> Grand narratives. Oh, neener, neener, neener. I assume
that we are all endowed with a very fuzzy ruleset from which
patterns of association arise. What's grand about it. I
admit to a desire to join with others in taking responsibility
for our future. I think that such a joining is a "good", even
while conceding that, given complexity, that the future we
plan for is unlikely to be the future we get. <br>
> <br>
> How DARE you pin me with a categorical pin. Besides, I
am much more pomo than you are. <br>
> <br>
> As I said: Neener, neener, neener. And so's your old
man. <br>
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-- <br>
"Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie."<br>
☤>$ uǝlƃ<br>
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