> [Platt] > Read the BBC bias report and weep. > > [Arlo] > Again, there is nothing in the passage from the BBC and the Wikipedia entry > that are at odds. If you can find a discrepency, please let me know. > > [Platt] > Further, if anyone has been pushing the value of myths, it's been you. > > [Arlo] > I argue for the value of myth as metaphor, not the value of ONE myth > to determine how we should live. > > [Platt] > As for the Hippies, we know what Pirsig said about their misguided > frivolities. > > [Arlo] > Yes. They were "the moral movement". > > [Platt] > But you don't point out how what I say is deceptive and distortive. > You just blame your disagreement with what I say on Limabaugh and > talk radio, implying that I'm a mind-numbed robot with nary a brain > in his head. Nothing personal, mind you. Yeah, right. > > [Arlo] > I point it out every time, and in context. This revisionism is just > part of parcel of the proof of that, Platt. > > [Platt] > Read your post again. You quoted at length about how liberalism was > the party of individualism and freedom. > > [Arlo] > I said, "This usurption of words leads us to forget that it was > liberalism that gave us the liberty we enjoy today." Can you tell me > where in that I say anything about a "party"? > > Again, this is just another example of your need to distort rather > than address dialogue honestly. > > [Platt] > See? A personal insult -- "Pee-Wee manuever" -- associating me with a > despicable character. > > [Arlo] > As I described previously, and can be seen by perusing the archives, > any time you are called on anything, you end your reply with calling the > other person exactly what they called you. If someone says you are > deceptive, you claim the other person is deceptive. I call this rhetorical > maneuver the Pee-Wee in homage to his "I know what you are, but what am I?" > defense when he was called anything. Take it personally if you wish, I > really don't care. > > [Platt] > You keep threatening to "hang up" on me, but never do. Promises, promises. > > [Arlo] > I've backed out of several threads with you, Platt. As I intend to do now > with this one.
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