Marsha: I not only agree with Mark that language is a kind of prison, but I also think patterns are a kind of prison.
"To the extent that one's behavior is controlled by static patterns of quality it is without choice. But to the extent that one follows Dynamic Quality, which is undefinable, one's behavior is free." [LILA} On May 11, 2011, at 8:48 PM, david buchanan wrote: > > Ron said: > Indeed, mostly because you all [Marsha, Bo and Platt] take SOM to be the > intellectual level. This equates to the intellectual level having a major > flaw. This explains the revolt against all percieved patterns of static > quality. > > > dmb says: > That's right. Marsha has also recently said that language is a kind of prison > and she has often said that conceptualization reifies, which would mean that > all concepts are inherently erroneous. When you add it all up this is a > profoundly anti-intllectual cocktail. It also happens to be convoluted > nonsense, but the attitude is unmistakable. It's hostile, hateful and > paranoid. It's the kind of egotistical bullshit that comes out of low > self-esteem, wherein the self-righteous one is too important and enlightened > and holy to bother with conventional illusions like "words", "concepts", > "evidence", "reason", "coherence" and "making sense". No, that stuff is just > for philosophers and the other kinds of low-life scum. Can't be bothered with > the merely mortal because fancy-pants, special, special me is above all that. > See my halo? Yea, I guess that sort of pose is convenient if you're not quite > up to the task of actually making sense. Who knows, maybe someday, somebody > will be fooli sh > even to confuse this anti-intellectual puke with some sort of wisdom. > Anything's possible. > > But I, for one, ain't buying it. It's bullshit. It's nonsense. It's neither > serious nor even honest. It's not something a healthy person does, for Pete's > sake! This drivel doesn't even comport with the dictionary! It is wholly > without merit. > > > > 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
