Re: JSH: Natural pause
- From: junoexpress <MTBrenneman@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:14:17 -0000
On Jun 17, 10:15 pm, Rupert <rupertmccal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 18, 12:11 pm, jst...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
One of the fun things to me about this wacky saga is that every once
in a while--every few years or so--I talk about the method behind the
apparent madness, kind of like a behind the scenes episode on some
movie or some television show.
Those who hate such things can tune out at this point...for the rest
here is the rationale that I use in deciding to post and what I think
is kind of sort of the point.
First off, the rule of Usenet and Internet is attention has to happen
first.
If no one reads you then there is no way you can get any message
across, no matter how valid you think that message is!
Second thing, people don't like nice, and they don't like agreement as
it's boring.
Posts where people ask nicely for help, congratulate each other, and
then talk about how great this process is and isn't it wonderful to be
able to share information in such an agreeable place, are boring.
Our world thrives on conflict. Disagreement drives Usenet. Without
it, you don't get that thing I mentioned above--attention.
So yes, a lot of what you see in postings from my side is just for
show, as they say, merely meant to keep the antagonism up, keep the
hostilities up, so that there is a continual tension and sense of
conflict to draw in readers.
Over the years I've refined techniques that tend to play to what works
and manages a rag-tag group of posters who come and go, kind of like
circus players, as over the years I've had a LOT of them, come and go.
I do at times try to tone things down a bit as well, when it gets too
outrageous even for me, often with limited success, where the thing
that does work is for me to just stop posting for a while, and I'm
finding that I have to do that more and more as things get more
advanced.
With all of that said there is a lot of real drama taking place as the
attention is not the purpose, but keeping the light on my mathematical
research IS, and the reality that academics at some very prestigious
institutions are not doing their jobs is the underlying theme.
There really was that publication in SWJPAM for instance where the
editors withdrew my paper after emails from several sci.math posters
(not certain about how many emailed them), and subsequently the
journal DID die, and Cameron University, its host, DID wipe all record
of its nine year existence from its webpages.
I do have multiple rejections from top journal of papers that are now
found on my websites, and I do have very simple mathematical results
which cannot be disputed as to correctness--though some posters still
try--which inexplicably are ignored by math people who claim they care
about "pure math".
My take on it is that to them "pure math" means that they have the
right to ignore ANY mathematical result no matter how important it can
be shown to be, as long as they do not personally like it!
So "pure math" means "personal math" or "my math" which goes to the
bit of side humor in the title of my math blog, when you consider the
way math people actually behave.
And that kind of covers the gist of the show as well as the reasons
for it.
I am an American who very much studies how modern media works, and one
thing we know how to do in this country, is get attention! So when
you see all those news stories about celebrities here and their wild
behavior, you may just wonder, while I study.
Like Paris Hilton is a remarkable person in terms of giving you some
sense of the concept, as make no mistake, our modern world runs as
much on attention as it does on oil.
You have to be able to get it, to get anything done, as otherwise, no
one knows who you are, or what you have found, no matter what it is
you have found.
James Harris
Well, this is a very interesting perspective you have here, but
really, if you had genuinely produced interesting mathematics you
would have no difficulty in achieving recognition for it. The re ason
you never will is because you are totally mathematically incompetent,
so none of your tactics are going to achieve anything, except
providing amusement for us.
Your response is well-reasoned, rational, correct, and therefore ...
BORING!
Next,
M
But honestly, I have much more serious concerns here.
Personally, I am starting to wonder if JSH even exists anymore. With
the "fake" JSH (e-mail starts with jshsu..) posting like James, I am
starting to worry that James got "offed". What if some high ranking
prof or the AMS had put a contract out on James (maybe some back-room
deal at a special emergency session of the AMS intelligentsia). Then,
they keep up the phony postings for while, while never actually doing
anything to get James's work recognized (since that of course is the
thing they would fear most).
James, can you give us "proof of life" so we know you are OK?
Maybe if you actually did something to promote your work other than
posting (i.e. started to sue somebody), then we'd know for sure you
were OK.
Oh well, whatever the case, I hope you're OK. All of these people
would hate to think they had worked so hard at spewing out venom and
thinking of witty repartees for a mere phantom.
M
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