Hi John, I figure we're all refugees here with various layers of our glasses peeled back. Ever refugees don't agree on everything.
Best, Mary On Behalf Of John Carl > Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 11:19 AM > > Sorry Mary, that position (eclectic iconoclast) is taken. ;) > > [Mary Replies] > > A pleasure to meet the resident elitist! Every group should have > one. I'm > > in the running for resident eclectic iconoclast, myself. ;) > > > > > And I for one don't think of Matt as an elitist. He and his hero Rorty > are > in favor of Philosophy as conversation - which entails listening and > responding to the other. > > No true elitist would act that way. A true elitist would haughtily > denounce all intellectual formulations other than hers as inherently > inferior and ignorable and grandly pronounce, "I've already said this > repeatedly." > > Matt doesn't do that, so he doesn't quite Qualify. > > > > > > [Mary Replies] > > You play your cards close to the vest, but me? Ask me anything. > Pirsig, > > for instance, makes a pretty impressive case that IPOVs really needed > > Socrates to grind that good 'ole Dharma/DQ of the Iliad into proper > 'form'. > > I've never cared much for the emotional appeal, as in Ch. 29 of ZMM. > But > > he > > just sounds harmlessly excited with the discovery of a new idea. > That's > > always cool in my book and his case does sound convincing... but what > do I > > know? In 2008, Fidelity told me my 401k was in great shape too. > > > > > > Well I like that. Maybe there's room in the world for more than one > eclectic iconoclast after all. > > > Hopefully we all keep our capacity to continually be harmlessly > excited by > the discovery of new ideas. > > "Except ye become as a little child, ye shall not enter the kingdom of > heaven." > > Jesus. > > > John 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
