What's plain English for you Platt is probably confusing and overly
intellectual for many - perhaps most. Have you never heard of a
dictionary - paper or online? Or is it too much to ask that people
involved in a forum for the discussion of philosophy make an effort to
understand the language of that area of knowledge? Just about every word
in the vast majority of posts on this forum are plain ordinary English
and if members can't be bothered to look up the occasional word that is
specific to philosophy, but instead choose to run down those with a more
extensive vocabulary than their own then that's not only ignorant but
downright pathetic. Alternatively, don't read the sodding posts if the
conversation or the words in the conversation are too long and
complicated - just don't complain because some people are too damn lazy
to make the effort to understand the conversations that they choose to
read - and if you can't stand the heat then get the hell out of the
kitchen.
As I said before, there's room for many styles and points of view but
trying to drag down to some base level those with the ability and
gumption to do better is a clear sign of social patterns trying to
subordinate intellectual patterns - and that's immoral according to the MoQ.
And if you think that's arrogant then fine - I couldn't care less.
On 16/04/2010 01:28, [email protected] wrote:
Do you mean that those who disagree with your views or favor plain
English are ignorant? I expect such arrogance from Arlo, but it's
surprising coming from you.
Regards,
Platt
On 15 Apr 2010 at 17:04, Horse wrote:
There's room here for many styles and points of view and I think it's
detrimental to Pirsigs work to let certain comments go
unchallenged.Ignorance may be bliss but only for the ignorant.
It also seems to me that most of those that complain about this academic
insertion and the big words and technical stuff are also the ones that
distort the MoQ the most. Interesting correlation maybe!
Cheers
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