John,
Well, you brought-up the descriptive word "snide" which helpfully informs me
that's what you personally think you are.
However, if you want MY personal opinion about your behaviour on this
discussion board recently, I think you're an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE. For instance,
you made the following statement to Ron Kulp yesterday:
"All the stuff I'd thought I'd do different, when I was a dad, I remembered
when I got old, and I listened to. I was lucky, I had a pretty good
dad. Emotionally distant, like all dads were, back then. But he spoke truth
to me, when we talked. He was pretty much an Indian dad, raised by an indian
dad himself. These patterns pass on."
If this statement is indeed accurate rather than just more of the same old
usual bullshit from yourself, you should be ashamed of yourself. What an
embarassment you are for someone with that background.
It's tragic actually. Robert Pirsig is one of the few North American
philosophers with a white background who has made a substantial and sincere
effort in understanding and promoting Native American ideas and culture in the
last fifty years. (FSC Northrop would be another).
However, whether it's down to you being too Westernised now or someone on this
Board has really pissed you off (probably David Buchanan and, undoubtedly
myself now), your attitude here stinks. It's disrepectful and (as I've noticed
over then last few months) you've made very little if any substantive comments
about the MOQ; which, of course, is the reason that we are meant to be here.
IMHO, I think you need to start with writing an apology letter to Robert Pirsig
today about your behaviour on the Discuussion group set-up and endorsed by him
to discuss his Metaphysics of Quality. You can write to Pirsig directly via
his publisher, Harper Collins. Their address follows:
Author Mail
c/o HarperCollins Publishers
10 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022-5299
Pirsig is not a particularly well man these days so please have the decency (at
least for once) to keep your apology short.
In the meantime, I'm going to ask Horse to get you removed from this Board at
the earliest possible instance. I hope that's absolutely clear to you.
Dr McWatt
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On May 17th 2014, John Carl wrote to Dr McWatt stating the following:
"Thanks for the thoughtful reply... It's intellectuals like you that
make the academic world swing, for sure."
"I think it'd be too much to expect every contribution to be good, but when
we can't be good, be snide, right?"
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Ant McWatt <[email protected]> wrote:
As usual [John] is not interested in what [I've] been saying or what Pirsig
said but just [in his own] own ego and producing more nonsense here than a
very large shed with a very large herd of cows in it with severe diarrhea...
I suppose it's just unrealistic to expect that everyone here can make a
positive contribution which would be good [for a change].
.
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