From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jul 11 2004 - 18:01:34 BST
> dmb adds:
> Yea, we should have warned you, Arlo. Platt is entirely imprevious to facts
> or logic.
Personal attack. No evidence to support.
> Its not that he fails to read what you write, it only SEEMS that
> way. Even when he's presented with contrary ideas from the guy who
> literally wrote the book on the MOQ, Platt remains a Randian dittohead.
Personal attack. No evidence to support.
> Apparently, there is nothing you or anyone else can say that will change
> that - not even if Pirsig says it. For example...
>
> Pirsig says in LILA (Chapter 17):
> "The conservatives [i.e. read capitalists] who keep trumpeting about the
> virtues of free enterprise are normally just supporting their own
> self-interest. They are just doing the usual cover-up for the rich in their
> age-old exploitation of the poor.
Distortion by omission: Pirsig says: "A free market is a Dynamic
institution." (Lila, 17)
> Even though Pirsig also says:
> "From a static point of view socialism is more moral than capitalism. Its a
> higher form of evolution. It is an intellectually guided society, not just
> a society based on mindless traditions."
Distortion by omission: Pirsig says: "But what the socialists left out and
what has all but killed their whole undertaking is an absence of a concept
of indefinite Dynamic Quality."
> AND (Pirsig's emphasis)
>
> "It is not that Victorian social economic patterns are more moral than
> socialist intellectual economic patterns. Quite the opposite. They are LESS
> moral as static patterns go."
Distortion by omission. Pirsig says, "What makes the free-enterprise
system superior is that the socialists, reasoning intelligently and
objectively, have inadvertently closed the door to Dynamic Quality in the
buying and selling of things."
> dmb concludes:
> So what's my point? Don't be discouraged. Platt SEEMS to have NOT read
> everything he's read. But others are not only reading and comprehending,
> but also enjoying what you write.
Platt concludes:
DMB has read Lila, but ignores what doesn't fit his socialist agenda. He
is impervious to logic and facts. Evidence above supports.
Platt
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