[Ron] But it would'nt be as much fun without these guys, they do spice things up...
[Arlo] John had recently said how much we need Jesters, and while he was (I'm pretty sure) thinking of Jester in the grand Merry Prankster tradition, I am reminded of one of the first words of caution I was given when I joined the list "Don't mind Platt, he's the comic book villain of the list", and that image of him with as Dasterdly Whiplash, or Dick Dasterdly (from Whacky Races) or Dudley Do Right's foil Snidely Whiplash stays with me to this day. And while its often more a funny-sad than a funny-haha kind of thing, the bizzarro twisting that forces them to proclaim mathematics a "social level pattern" is certainly one of the recent contenders for funniest post of the month. Now he has gone so far to say that Gav's intellectual level as an interior world of ideas "ignores the MOQs MORAL hierarchy" (with the nonsensical capitalization of "moral") but his own intellectual level as human individuals level does not... Talk about topsy-turvy "logic"... Gav's thought parallel Pirsig almost to the "T", "... the greatest meaning can be given to the intellectual level if it is confined to the skilled manipulation of abstract symbols that have no corresponding particular experience and which behave according to rules of their own." (Pirsig) While Platt almost has to deconstruct this to make it fit his anti-intellectual crusade into an argument that Pirsig doesn't understand the MOQ, it is funny to watch it unfold (again)... 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/
