--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "emptybill" <emptybill@> wrote: > > > > I'm thinking "pedestrian" is an adequate summary of his > > multiple musings posing as insight. > > Not bad as a one-word description, but there's really > more to it than that. Just for one thing, a pedestrian > writer's work isn't necessarily devoid of self- > knowledge, nor is such a writer necessarily careless > about logic, or about truthfulness, for that matter. > > > Perhaps you have a better one but you can save it for a sunny day. > > Why waste a good post describing the waifing scent of garbage? > > Well, 'cause I'm challenging him to do *better*. > > You know, it occurs to me that perhaps his problem is > that he's been stuck for so long making his living > writing software documentation--which he *has* to take > time and care with, or he'd be fired--that when he > writes for his own pleasure, he can't bear to > discipline himself to impose the same constraints on > his output. > > I guess that's understandable, if so, but it's a shame. > Maybe one way to go would be for him to be selective > about what he ends up posting. Write all the > unconstrained garbage he wants, but not post it; then > pick out a few pieces every week that have some > potential and spend a bit of time and effort revising > them until they're as good as he can possibly make > them, and only then post them. > > Now that I think about it, I wonder whether his > compulsion to write putdowns here is really a matter > of displaced anger at having to write nothing but > technical stuff at work. Maybe MMY/TM/TMers are just > convenient targets on which to let out his > frustration at not having the kind of writing career > he always dreamed of. > > I mean, when he first announced years ago that he was > moving to Paris, it was supposedly to work on a novel > he said he was writing about the Cathars. But we haven't > heard anything about that in quite some time. > > Maybe he should be urged to go back to the novel instead > of wasting his time inflicting rubbish on FFL. Maybe > raising his sights would unleash some real creativity. > > Or maybe not...
Spending hours every day on FFL denocing everything regarding Maharishi, how could he possible have time for anything else ? Also the fellow is getting oldish; spending years and years on negativity there could be very little power left for pursuing anything creative now.
