[MD] The Greeks?

[John Carl]

Sorry Mary,  that position (eclectic iconoclast) is taken. ;)

[Mary Replies]
> A pleasure to meet the resident elitist!  Every group should have one.  I'm
> in the running for resident eclectic iconoclast, myself. ;)
>
>
And I for one don't think of Matt as an elitist.  He and his hero Rorty are
in favor of Philosophy as conversation - which entails listening and
responding to the other.

No true elitist would act that way.   A true elitist would haughtily
denounce all intellectual formulations other than hers as inherently
inferior and ignorable and grandly pronounce, "I've already said this
repeatedly."

Matt doesn't do that, so he doesn't quite Qualify.




> [Mary Replies]
> You play your cards close to the vest, but me?  Ask me anything.  Pirsig,
> for instance, makes a pretty impressive case that IPOVs really needed
> Socrates to grind that good 'ole Dharma/DQ of the Iliad into proper 'form'.
> I've never cared much for the emotional appeal, as in Ch. 29 of ZMM.  But
> he
> just sounds harmlessly excited with the discovery of a new idea.  That's
> always cool in my book and his case does sound convincing... but what do I
> know?  In 2008, Fidelity told me my 401k was in great shape too.
>
>

Well I like that.  Maybe there's room in the world for more than one
eclectic iconoclast after all.


Hopefully  we all keep our capacity to continually be harmlessly excited by
the discovery of new ideas.

"Except ye become as a little child, ye shall not enter the kingdom of
heaven."

Jesus.


John