On 2 Dec 2009 at 17:31, Andre Broersen wrote: > Andre: > Great posts Arlo, but I think you're flogging a near dead horse. > Platt, and his fellow Plattonians have an ideological belief system > from which they 'see'. There is no way in the world they will change > this belief system because of the heavy investment in it...and it is > not only property,money,wealth and celebrity. Their entire identity is > based on it and they will twist and turn and distort anything and > anybody who is not 'with' them.
By contrast you are enlightened, open-mnded, sophisticated, nuanced, pragmatic, tolerant, flexible, charitable, reasonable and unbiased. Yeah, right. > > He's been doing this for years now. > > I loath myself for implying the term 'us and them' in a similar way > Phaedrus recognised within himself what a S/O division had done to > him... what it had made him into. > Fortunately Phaedrus has moved on and so have I but I am afraid the > Plattonians have not and are still strong and very,very anti MoQ. Or, > perhaps the term 'opportunistic' regarding the MoQ is better. It seems > to me they have learnt nothing over all these years. Yes, of course. In your mind you've become another Phaedrus. > I think it best (for myself) to ignore it. It is like giving a child > no attention when it is 'good' and loads of it when it is not. One > only reinforces the negative behaviour. See(!) my argument has even > reached the level of Skinner's behaviorism. I think it best to ignore an egomaniac. Platt 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/
