Morning, Ian, <snip>> Ian: > Anything that reaches public consciousness ... any intellectual level > pattern that degenerates into a social one .... is full of rhetoric, > spin, hypocrisy, crap, you name it. The bigger the issue, the greater > the crap content and issues don't come much bigger than freedom or > democracy, so guess how much crap there. Since Deists met Darwinists > on the front pages, biological evolution is largely crap. Since the > search for the Higgs Boson became a matter of public funding, guess > what, even fundamental physics is mostly crap. Physical, biological, > social, intellectual ... it's all crap if all we aspire to is the kind > of social patterns that pass for free (sic) speech and reasoned (sic) > debate. <snip>
mel: The focus of your hammer is inerrant, pity the poor nail. But, even in the crap-fog of the social milieu, there are eddies and currents of small groups and individuals working on their particular fragment of the mosaic and diligently teasing out more knowledge, generating more understanding--it's what Pirsig himself did on an unheralded stretch of time after a motorcycle trip. No glory. A holiday is nice, but don't wander too far... thanks--mel 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/
