Hello everyone On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Steven Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Dan Glover <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello everyone >> >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Steven Peterson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> LC annotation 126. "God knows, the MOQ has never had two better >>> friends than Bo and Platt." >> >> Dan: >> >> Yes... notice how skillfully Robert Pirsig uses praise to lessen the >> impact of telling Bo and Platt that they're wrong: >> >> "... so this is no criticism of their otherwise >> brilliant thinking. It’s just that I see a lowering of the >> quality of the MOQ itself if you follow this path of >> subordinating it to that which it opposes." [RMP annotation 126] >> >> Dan comments: >> >> Really, we could learn a great deal from this here. And God (it is >> meant as a literary device, not an actual statement of belief) knows I >> am as guilty as the next person in condemning and criticizing. >> >> Just something to consider, that's all. > > > Steve: > That's a great point.
Dan: Is that so? > > What was interesting to me in reflecting on that quote is how clueless > the great author seems to be about who the MOQ's friends and enemies > are. Dan: "Great author" is a term of derision and not of respect. >Steve: > Perhaps dmb has already risen to the level of the brilliant Platt and > Bo in the esteem of Pirsig. What a thrill it must be to be counted > among their number! Dan: So much for my "great point"... >Steve: > Newton had Bacon, Darwin had Huxley, and Jesus had Paul of Tarsus who > managed to take a wise man's teaching in response to persecution and > turn it into a religion which itself became a tool of persecution. > Heretics must be dealt with and harshly. There is no room for parallel > valid interpretations. There can be only one answer to every question, > and it must be phrased in the words chosen by the Bulldog--a > narcissist who can only stomach hearing his own words parroted back to > him. All other phrasings even of pretty much the same notions are > heresies which must be expunged before they spread. > > How would a narcissistic Bulldog be as a teacher? Dan: My quip to dmb about being a good teacher was meant to be more in humor than maliciousness. Hopefully he knows that even if you do not. Steve: > It will go something > like this: "Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what > the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more > sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in > such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but > taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your > own. That got you A's." Dan: Aren't you a teacher, Steve? Thank you, Dan 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
