> [Platt] > multiculturalism -- the doctrine that no culture is better than any > other, past or present, especially American culture. > > [Arlo] > And that's what has your balls all in a bunch, isn't it? It's not > that "no culture is better" per se, its the "especially American > culture". Its not just enough to proclaim a culture as "superior", it > has to be that we proclaim American culture as superior. It's not > enough to just criticize others, we have to stroke our dicks about > how above criticism Glorious America is. Well... to be honest we are > allowed to criticize "those evil commie libs" because they ain't > really 'merican at all, they're the product of Unholy Marxism and > Imperial Russia. Jesus, if we ain't singing the Star Spangled Banner > as we denounce the inferior lesser cultures of the world, well they > doggone it we are "multiculturalists" who are destroying God's Great > Nation. The more of this crap I read, the more I understand why the > rest of the world thinks bad about Americans. Oh, but what the hell, > we are better than everyone else, so who gives a damn what they > think. "They hate us for our freedom", after all.
Spoken like a true multiculturalist, using typical moveon.org gutter language. > [Arlo previously] > Not "endowed by the Creator" but emergent from culture. Not from God, from > us. > > [Platt] > Yes, precisely the view of a collectivist. Thanks for confirming your > position. > > [Arlo] > As I pointed out with Pirsig's words, the view of the MOQ, and most > certainly this is my position. But thanks for that "ooo.... the big > evil collectivist" plug. Why should anyone expect anything more? > > "All men are created equal" is an intellectual pattern of value. > "Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They > originate out of society" (LILA). ""Our intellectual description of > nature is always culturally derived." (LILA) Yes, we're all prisoners of group-think. No one can ever possibly have an original idea. Meanwhile let's be sure to ignore all Pirsig references to individuals, like the guy on death row and why Pirsig says he shouldn't be killed if no threat to society. . > In this case, this particular intellectual emerged from the > multicultural union between Amerindians and Europeans. It was born > from the contemplation of the social way of life of the American > Indian, a reflective, meta-cogntive abstraction where the > social-symbolic life of the Indian became an object-of-inquiry in and > of itself. It was not "handed down by God", but built through the > negotiated dialogue of agenic individuals contemplating abstract > forms of socially-mediated symbolic life. With a lead balloon like that, no wonder you found a job in academe. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
