I could not agree more Mel. My underlying point was that in this particular social mileu the number of individuals in that category is a vanishingly small proportion of the whole (IMHO natch). I no longer pity the poor nails. Ian
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:00 PM, ml <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > 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/
