[Platt to Ron] Except the intellectually savy in America never went along with the morally challenged intellectual elites in the western academy who admired Uncle Joe in Russia and Mussolini in Italty. With the elections of Eisenhower, Reagan and Bush, the trend towards authoritarianism which has always appealed to Roosevelt-type intellectuals was stopped in its tracks. Now, however, free speech and other individual rights are again being threatened by incipient fascists in the Obama administration. Its attack on the CIA shows it taking biology's side against society. It's attempt to determine who lives and who dies by taking over health care shows a similar predisposition. The next few months will tell the story.
[Arlo] John, just wondering if you're planning on chastising Platt for yet another moronic and, to be frank, embarrassing "contribution" to the forum. I mean, now that the evil perfesser is no longer among us, is this the sort of anti-intellectual nonsense and talk-radio squalking we are going to let pass here? Or now that we've driven off the evil perfesser, are we hoisting embracing this sort of perverse drivel? (To borrow one of DMB's terms) You berated DMB for his "tone of 'evil right wing conspiracy'" saying it "seems to me a bit like spreading suspicious paranoia". And that was because he objected to, as he saw it, was a gross oversimplification of three hours of content that addressed neither the points of the documentary nor their importance. OK. I like Craig, I don't think he was deliberately trying to con anyone. His posts are always a model of brevity. But I do think DMB had a fair point. Nonetheless, rather than responding to that, you chose to call DMB out for "paranoiac" conspiracy rhetoric. So I read Platt's latest display of zero brain-cell thinking in words, and I wonder... if DMB was guilty of paranoid conspiracy rhetoric, Platt has taken this to moronic heights DMB could only see if he climbed Mt. Everest. So. Ding dong, the evil perfesser is dead. Now what do we do with the class fool? 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/
