[MD] The Greeks?

[Mary]

Hi John,

I figure we're all refugees here with various layers of our glasses peeled
back.  Ever refugees don't agree on everything.

Best,
Mary

On Behalf Of John Carl
> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 11:19 AM
> 
> 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