From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 20:19:01 BST
Hi Erin,
[you wrote]
If you want people to act/think as individuals then the first step is treating
them as such and not lumping them into a "party people" category.
[Arlo]
Fair enough. But my purpose in all this is to get anyone to act or think as an
individual. My purpose is to expose a cultural problem, or dialogic deficiency.
Without explaining the problem, or bringing it into some type of analysis, I'm
not sure how to go about talking about solutions.
[you wrote]
Like Before you complained about using a "my team" or "your team" football
analogy BUT you were the one who brought that analogy in the first place.
[Arlo]
I think analogies are necessary rhetorical devices. I'm not sure what you're
saying, except maybe that "my" analogy creates the problem. If so, how do we
ever hold a discussion of the problem, of ANY problem?
[you wrote]
Just like when you consistently make statements about "the right" and deny you
don't follow Platt's left/right dichotomy.
[Arlo]
Like I said, its not that I "dont get" or acknowledge that there exists people
who call themselves "conservatives" and people who call themselves "liberals".
As far as using these words, I have no problem. When I use them in scarequotes,
as is nearly always the case (unless sleep deprivation has kicked in) it is to
acknowledge that these self-acclaimed people exist, but to deny that all of
reality can be captured by the cultural dichotomy (evidenced here in this forum
by Platt). Hence, I've never denied there are "conservatives" or "liberals",
and so will use those words (in scarequotes) to faciliate the discussion at
hand. But I won't use them in support of the either-or, good-evil, right-wrong
split many want to go along with it.
[you wrote]
I just don't find consistency in your argument....and that isn't an insult I
think it is hard to be consistent which these kind of topics.
[Arlo]
Fair enough. And when you call me on thise inconsistencies I will either try to
explain myself, or acknowledge them. Paradox and Confusion, I'm told after all,
guard the Gates of Truth.
Arlo
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