Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > The good old days when good and evil were easily recognized seems preferable > to > the current slow decline of Quality. > > [Arlo] > Next you'll tell us the "good old days" can be had by embracing conservatism. > Am I right? Or is this where you tell us that _YOUR_ nightmare rhetoric is > dead > on, but every other group's is foolish? > > This latest example of deplorable rhetoric only evidences the need for some to > cling to fear and nightmare, all the while ridiculing fear and nightmare as a > tactic used by others. (When MY politicians do it, its valid. When YOUR > politicians do it, its foolish). Rather than rise above the evil, it's > apparent > you'd rather embrace it. > > Of the passage you cite, Pirsig refers to the "current slow decline of > Quality" > as a "slow confused mindless drift back to a kind of pseudo-ÂVictorian moral > posture". Since this is exactly what you offer more of, I think I'll pass. > > But you're not going to pull me into another round of vile talk-show rhetoric. > I'm hanging up the phone. I see Micah was smart enough to simply ignore your > deplorable rhetorical tactics, mayhap I should strive for his strength.
So what do you offer, besides insults, to stop the quality decline? Marxist morality perhaps? ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
