Re: Tom Turley: Banned from Attending K-Fest '97

[buggie@auriga.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

Wow, what a controversy!   Let me back off to the sidelines!

I started this thread about Tom Turley and KFest '97, but have some
followup comments:

Someone earlier on this thread implied that Dr. Tom set me up to make the
openining comment.  HE DID NOT.  He did not ask me to write my memo, and
he did not read it or censor it prior to its appearance on the net.  He
did relay a message he sent to his circle of correspondents mentioning
that he was made un-welcome to attend K-Fest; my reaction was my own.

A reader wrote that Dr. Tom is mentally disturbed and that I, as a
psychologist, should have noticed this when I met him in person in
November 1996.  The only disturbance I noticed was an obsessive/
compulsive devotion to Apple II, an affliction that is widespread among
KFest attenders!   ;-)

Someone mentioned ---- what if John Scully showed up at KFest; fine!
Sure, he was the corporate executioner of the A2, but despite that, as a
KFest attender I'd like to meet him!  We newcomers want to meet the
celebrities of t he A2 world, whatever their pasts.

In many ways, KFest is like the 2-3 academic meetings I attend each year.
Some of those gatherings of college professors stress harmony and
agreement ---- those sessions are boring.  The really interesting academic
conferences are those where rival professors or theorists hotly debate
their ideas.  

Sigmund Freud (founder of psychoanalysis) was severely roasted in 1908 
when he visited Clark Univ. and presented his controversial ideas on
infant sexuality.  Freud was the "Dr. Tom of psychology" at that 1908
meeting. Witnessing a heated debate like Frued's, or Turley's at K-Fest,
would be really memorable.

Let Turley attend!		Steve Buggie	buggie@unm.edu





















: Tom