Platt to Arlo: The missing ingredient from "critical thinking" is its ignorance of the moral force of DQ. From such ignorance the flaws of critical thinking flow, resulting, as Angell and Demetis expose, in a process "infested with paradoxes.".
Andre: Oh Platt, you made a wonderful pass waiting for someone to head it in. So you criticize Arlo assigning a high value to the 'critical thinking' method (yes I know you defend the SOM, the individualistic model of the intellectual level to the hilt) based on 'its ignorance of the moral force of DQ...resulting...in a process 'infested with paradoxes'. I will take you to your own much exalted, god-inspired defense of the free market enterprise system: 'On the other hand the conservatives who keep trumpeting about the virtues of free enterprise are normally just supporting their own self-interest. They are just doing the usual cover-up for the rich in their age-old exploitation of the poor. Some of them seem to sense there is also something mysteriously virtuous in a free enterprise system and you can see them struggling to put it into words but they don't have the metaphysical vocabulary for it anymore than the socialists do'. (LILA,p225) I will spell it out for you Platt, just in case you start wriggling in my proverbial bucket full of snot: the conservatives are 'ignorant of the moral force of DQ' ( see I am using your words and reasoning) with regards to the virtues of the free enterprise system 'resulting...in a process (and here I substitute 'process' for 'system' without in any way detracting from- or adding to- your argument) 'infested with paradoxes'. Of course we know that the MOQ 'provides the vocabulary' (ibid). Thus a straightforward presentation of your argument with regards to the free enterprise system (as its value is perceived by the MOQ reads): the free enterprise system results a process infested with paradoxes. Okay,now, I will put it in your coat: Platt criticizes the free market system because its results are a situation infested with paradoxes. (merely following your own reasoning Platt) Now THAT is a positive statement made by a true MOQ'er! Congratulations Platt...your in! Now how, as a true, newly baptized MOQ'er, are we going to make sure that the DQ/sq balance (with regards to this system) is achieved and maintained ensuring maximum benefit thus making this world a better place to live...(you know, Phaedrus' agenda in ZMM)? ** 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
