[Platt]
You obviously don't understand conservatism.
[Arlo]
Actually, I understand it quite well. As did Pirsig, in those quotes
I've provided. He also understood it in ZMM, when "right-wing
politics" attempted to brand him a "radical professor" and fire him.
[Platt]
Have you read Lila? Do you have any concept of how defective
intellect has made a mess of things, beginning with Wilson and Roosevelt?
[Arlo]
Have you read Lila? Do you have any concept of how the "slow drift"
back to social dominance over intellect is NOT the answer?
[Platt]
Your mind is closed tight.
[Arlo]
Right. In your dichotomous world, anyone rejecting "conservatism"
must be a evil, close-minded, commie, acerdemic perfessor, an enemy
of liberty, a hater of freedom, a sauteer of puppies.
[Platt]
Nice try at changing the subject. Obviously you don't want to admit
to the superiority of the free market, a conservative principal.
[Arlo]
Sigh. Same old moronic rhetoric. Who "changed the subject"? I'm only
trying to change it back to what it was before you warped it. Perhaps
you should go back a few threads and see what the subject was. I can
do that, if you want, in my next post. I will give you two bullshit
points here, you can spend them at Hannity-online.com for some great
teabaggery.
I don't have to "admit" anything. I favor the market. But I do not
think all things are reducible to market commodities. Nor do I think
favoring the market means that nothing should be held in the public
trust. I also do not think favoring the "market" means we should not
support public libraries, or state lands, or parks, or EMT personnel,
or fire/police, or the army, or our roadways and waterways.
I mean, do you think the Army should be privatized and governed by
"the free market"? Should we abolish those dreadful copyright
regulations that restrict free activity in the market?
But obviously YOU do not want to admit the basic principle of the
MOQ, that the intellect level is morally superior to the social
level. I don't recall any addendum that said this superiority is only
valid if the defect is corrected. Can you point to one?
[Platt]
As for Pirsig commenting about me, check his Introduction to "Lila's
Child," written long before you or DMB came on the scene.
[Arlo]
Hehe... He said you hit bulls-eyes like a Zen Archer. I suppose
anyone who shoots as many arrows must hit a bulls-eye now and then. I
read this as about the kindest thing Pirsig could say, which is
hardly a ringing endorsement. Nonetheless, he has recently not only
commented that DMB is the voice of the MD that pulls people who stray
back to what he, Pirsig, means, he continues to lend his voice and
support to these "evil academics". I take that, instead, as a ringing
endorsement, which at the very least makes your claim that DMB
"doesn't get it" absurd and without merit.
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