[Platt] Right. If I don't understand the superior intellects of Arlo and his academic aristocrats, it's my problem. Apparently his arrogance knows no bounds.
[Arlo] Everyone else understands me. And not just people I know "in the academy". No one else I know is so confounded by what I say as you. I could, of course, try to dumb things down for just you, but given that everyone else understands me just fine, I'll decline... By the way, the first time I read James Gleik's book on Chaos, I said to myself, "wow, this is really above me", and so I read more and learned more and studied more, and now its quite a simple read. But I never once thought "that elitist Gleick and his arrogant belief in his superiority". How ridiculous would that be? Now, about "arrogance", another evasive lie. Don't you ever feel the slightest bit of shame for your atrocious rhetoric? So let's take a look... [Arlo previously] People write for an audience. When that audience is more knowledgeable, people can write at higher levels of complexity. History books written for fifth graders do not bear the intricate analysis as university textbooks. If you can't "effortlessly understand" what someone writes, maybe the problem is with YOU? Naaaahhh... must be those big bad intellectuals... [Arlo adds] Where is the "arrogance" in this? Is it "arrogant" to give the university student a textbook that's more complex than "Dick and Jane in England"? So in a philosophy forum, who is the "average reader" you feel can't keep up with the "academic" talk? I mean other than you. Is it arrogant for DMB to talk about the nuances of James' ideas? Or John to post with a synthetical analysis of Royce and Pirsig? Just how "dumb" do you think the "average reader" is here? Let me see if I understand. When YOU can't understand something, its not YOU, its the fault of an arrogant, elitist author who hasn't dumbed down his writing enough for YOU to be able to easily understand it?? Ai yi yi... Viva l'ignorance!! 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/md/archives.html
