Hi Ian,
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected]>wrote: > John, when you say "LS" you mean the Google Group called Lila Squad or > another site (one of many blog & forum attempts with the Lila Squad > name) ? > > j: Yes, I meant the LilaSquad group that Mary initiated. It's a small discussion group. > So far as I can see the LSGG is same old same old - Bo calling > everyone SOMists and Platt egging him on with anti-democratic rants ? > j: Well Platt posts rarely. Bo is quite prolific on his own without need for much egging. But I find trying to argue with him has been jolly good exercise. I can't bench press 300 pounds either, but trying does build muscle. i: > That plus resurrection of 200 year old philosophic problems long since > solved, and a lot of unfiltered spam. j: you must mean tim there. I don't think he believes in speaking plainly but it's not really "spam" so much as unfiltered craziness. > (Surprisingly I've tried to > r-engage Bo a few times in the last couple of years, but all he ever > does is hurl ignorant insults.) > > Anyway, incidentally after posting on only a handful of threads on MD > in the last couple of years I too was heard to remark in December on > seeing a Marsha conversation with Dan that "it was great to be > reminded of why I remained subscribed to MD". > > Sadly very few people on any related discussion site actually listen > to any post 1980's contributions. Each finds a refuge on which to > argue their own points on their own terms - as if antagonism was the > point of the exercise.Twas ever thus. > > j: well, if so then that itself is an interesting phenom. But there is so little conversation to be had about Pirsig and his ideas, anywhere in the world, that the fact that a group of people do so is a rare and valuable treat and we all ought to be grateful rather than antagonistic. i: > I've concluded editorially managed channels are the only hope for > constructive progress, and there are plenty of those around. > Ian > > An old friend of mine, Steve Marquis (who used to belong to MD) is the moderator for a discussion group on stoicism and he says its getting more and more discouraging - the kind of reasoning that passes for sound these days. Tsk tsk. We are starting to sound like old curmudgeons - kids these days don't care about reason, they use logic to justify socially-transferred opinions... but as you say, twas ever thus. John the curmudgeon 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
