On 21 Jul 2009 at 17:47, Arlo Bensinger wrote: > [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.
You understand zilch. > [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? Again, changing the subject to avoid answering. > [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. As they say, a fox smells is own hole first. > [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? Yadda, yadda, yadda. More idiotic rhetoric. > [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. Right, Like a Zen archer misses more often than hits. Pathetic. Since you're incapable of carrying on a sane conversation, I'm outta here. 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/
