When Pirsig says DMB's thinking is brilliant, whether otherwise on one issue or not, I'll be the first to congratulate him instead of trying to demean him in a pitiful effort to build up my ego.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:40 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]>wrote: > > Platt said to Marsha: > .., I humbly offer a Pirsig accolade that is forever writ in Dan Glover's > book, Lila's Child: "God knows the MOQ has never had two better friends than > Bo and Platt, so this is no criticism of their otherwise brilliant > thinking." Yes, Mr. Pirsig is not only a good man but also a good judge of > "brilliant thinking." > > > > dmb says: > Even THIS is a prime example of dishonest, selective reading. If you're > going to take the praise from Pirsig, you also have to take the criticism. > This "accolade" exists in a context. What about the next sentence? What > about the fact that he's commenting on some thinking that he finds less that > "brilliant". If memory serves, this is the quote where he goes on to say > that your idea of the intellectual level undermines the MOQ. And all the > best MOQers have been giving you evidence and explanations as to how and why > that view undermines the MOQ over and over again for years. If you're > willing to believe what he says about your brilliant thinking, you also have > to be willing to believe what he says about your ideas when they are > "otherwise", when they are not brilliant and when they are destructive. > > Where's the honesty? Where's the humility? Where's the reasonableness? > Where is the intellectual quality? > > > > > > 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
