Well, okay, i did read it again, to reconsider, re-balance it. (only as an aside, i took Arlo's points about the Amish in consideration,because in an earlier thread , setting time 100 years back was mentioned by you , Ian)
Ian "-adding value to the content of the arguments-" Adrie This is not really Angell's strongest point, exept for stirring up controverse's i cannot see him providing solutions for the so called imbalance. Handing over a so called problem is one thing, tossing in solutions another. There is a name for this used technique, it is called demagogy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogy ( Father coughlin was one of them) so i maintain my position,but adding this as fine-tuning He (angell) is a demagog,in the disguise of a religious fanatic. One more thing to toss in, i consider Pirsig's, James ,etc , their work as science. Good thread anyway. 2010/10/29 Ian Glendinning <[email protected]> > A question of balance ? > > Tell me, how many of you listened to the Thinking Allowed piece before > reading the web page ? And how many vice versa ? > > How much of people's hearing and reading really reflects the attitude > they bring to the piece. (I did remark on this earlier .... that 95% > of discourse on MD seems to be people expressing their attitude to the > people they are "arguing" with rather than adding value to the content > of any argument. Even those whose positions I sympathize with the ... > socialist intellectual / social democrat types clearly ... DMB, Arlo, > Horse. But smugness is ugly whichever side you're on. ) > > For sure, if I'd read that page in isolation before hearing the > interview - my attitude to Angell would undoubtedly have been > different. Even now I question how "agnostic" he is. But as a > self-proclaimed agnostic, correcting the interviewer who asked if he > was promoting faith as an alternative to science, he his hardly a > religious fanatic. > > Scientism is as dangerous as religious fanaticism. > Anti-fanaticism is still fanaticism, and smells as sweet. > > Ian > 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 > -- parser 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
