The good old days are gone. And that is why they are good. >Drink, drugs and women are easy to leave, in comparison to metaphysical >speculation.
Let's get real here John Carl. Really real. Like totally real. I think we're in need of a little less "mentation" and a little more "mexican pussy". You know what I mean pinto bean. I say let the pendulum do it's thing: slap slap slap slap ... ________________________________ From: John Carl <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, May 8, 2010 12:40:45 PM Subject: [MD] you intellectual dickhead, you That's right, I'm talkin' to you. You purveyor of reason, you definer of truth, you container of static excellence you. You, proud of your towering mind, seeking to thrust your ideas into me, seeking to penetrate my defensive membranes with your "points". Well you're not gonna do it. I'm gonna try and do it to you so hard, you won't be able to do it to me. Cuz I'm an intellectual dickhead too. We all are, here, or we wouldn't be doing this. Wouldn't be talking about the classical definitions of the meaning of meaning. And since it's my choice, I'm gonna defend it. I can't in any style imagine stopping or quitting or changing. My whole life is but a seeking for knowing and communicating my knowing to others. Drink, drugs and women are easy to leave, in comparison to metaphysical speculation. I guess the only morality question is "how?" Seduction or Rape? A combination perhaps. Certainly none of that academic prostitution! But honest to goodness we need some balance. We are crying for a balance of the other side of consciousness, the other half of human mentation, the artistic side. We don't have that and it's the IMPORTANT half, the half of consciousness that leads the knowing and the explaining. I'm talking about here on MD, of course, but not critically. For one thing, we are reduced mainly to words on an internet forum, and thus can only play the hand we're dealt. I don't see the composition of MD as the problem; I see the problem in the world - the society at large, and MD as a possible cure. Or if not a cure, at least a thoroughgoing analysis of where to go for a cure. I mean, this intellect we all value so much must be good for something, right? Here we seek out what is good, and share it with others. And there's a lot of good out in the world, but its mostly old. There's hardly any new good, and what's more, the constant shoveling of "new and improved" at us day and in night, in the service of commercialism, is degrading our tastes. We lose our comprehension of old good, and besides, it's old. We've already seen it, been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, attended the sequel and viewed it from the perspective of retro-week on cable. What I see in the world at large is artistic genius on the wane. More and more the works of culture are self-referential and the self that they refer to is a vapid and shallow self. With permutations of generations degrading into sensualist satisfactions unearned and out of context, the foundations disappear. There is no proper basis for constructing a worthy self from such tripe. We're doomed if we don't turn it around somehow. We're doomed if we slide with the times and let the pendulum do its thing. We're doomed if we trust in our credentials and status symbols to confirm us in our rightness and just keep the negative patterns going. We're doomed unless we somehow penetrate the mystery that surrounds us, the mystery of why the hell we are so doomed. And I mean, it's really a nice day and I'm in a good mood. But nevertheless, unless we do better, we're doomed. 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 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
