[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

[Platt continues in vain to paint Arlo with the brush of his fallacious Party
Love]

[Arlo previously]
Can you cite anything from what I said that you think is "liberal"? Walking?
Biking? Less packaging on consumerables? As for the dirty water and air and
land, that's all my personal experience from being outdoors. 

[Plattman in typical fasion]
That's all greenie, tree-hugging, environmental wacko stuff the libs love.
Typical dichotomy -- garden-windmill loving moral, virtuous, principled
liberals vs. miner-oil loving immoral, deceptive, conniving, evil Nazi
conservatives.

[Arlo]
Conservatives don't like walking and biking? How odd. I know many who do. Maybe
down your way conservatives don't do this, but up here they certainly do. Some
of my more avid fisher/hiker friends are conservatives, and they express as
much concern for the quality of the environment as I do, if not more.

As for the gardener-miner metaphors, I strictly placed that within a
fundamentalist-other Christian tradition frame. I know many Christians who are
both conservatives and approach the world through the metaphor of gardener. But
the fundamentalist streak, which is aligned mostly with the right, certainly
view their existence in the world as a miner.

Let me remind you that Pirsig, too, saw this metaphor (mining) as more prevalent
in overall western traditions. One could say that the western metaphorical
approach has been "miner", while the non-western traditions (Buddhism, Indian)
have been "gardener". Of the west and its S/O ways, Pirsig writes...

"Phædrus remembered a line from Thoreau: "You never gain something but that you
lose something." And now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable
magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in
terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific
capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations
of his own dreams of power and wealth...but for this he had exchanged an empire
of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a
part of the world, and not an enemy of it."

Oddly, it is only your unwavering and unquestioning obedience to whatever the
Party Line is that forces the dialogue into this schism. Conservatives are not
anti-environmentalists. Most I know are avid outdoorsmen. But the zeal with
which "all things liberal" must be attacked and condemned forces Party Jesters
to ignore everything in favor of creating and waging their assinine "war".
Because YOU have learned in good puppet fashion that even the slightest mention
of "environment" or "conservation" must be evil, liberal talk, all you can
offer yet again are more insipid and foolish caricatures rather than anything
useful. Win the war at all costs. Whatever.




> Arlo tries again in vain to duck and run from his socialist big-government
> regulatory instincts.
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