[MD] Platt-a-ganda, Kermit, Chomsky & Goebbels

[Platt Holden]

Sad to see a doctor of philosophy and teacher resorting to personal 
attack instead of presenting a cogent argument.  

Platt

[Ant]
> Platt weirdly stated (in his usual Establishment "Goebbels was
> misunderstood kind of way") July 14th:
> 
> >No. As I said before, Noam Chomsky claims to be an anarchist, and I'm
> >about as far away from Chomsky's anti-Americanism as I can be. I'm a
> >libertarian.
> 
> Ant McWatt notes:
> 
> As someone who has recently attended a lecture by Chomsky and has heard
> his emphasis on freedom, liberty and independent thinking, I thought
> Chomsky was as pro-(read "genuine") American as _anyone_ could be.  He's
> a great bloke as the Aussies say!
> 
> I suspect something is seriously wrong/out-of-kilter here.  So,
> regarding Platt's posts regarding politics in connection with the MOQ,
> how did that Sesame Street song go...
> 
> 
> "One of these things is not like the others,
> One of these things just doesn't belong,
> Can you tell which thing is not like the others
> By the time I finish my song?"
> 
> "Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
> Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?
> If you guessed this one is not like the others,
> Then you're absolutely...right!"
> 
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Anthony
> 
> 
> P.S. Jim Henson was great wasn't he?
> 
> 
> P.P.S. Long live Bert and Ernie (especially Ernie)!
> 
> P.P.S. Not that the MOQ supports any particular SOM political ideology
> but isn't anarchy (freedom from unnecessary government interference) the
> closest traditional system there is to what Pirsig was getting at?
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1904859208/103-4227054-9307833?v=glance
> &n=283155
> 
> 
> "The Goebbels technique, also known as argumentum ad nauseam, is the
> name given to a policy of repeating a point until it is taken to be the
> truth (see 'Big Lie' and 'Platt's Individual Level').  For example, when
> Goebbels took ownership (with usually more than four posts a day) of the
> Der Discuss-riff ('The MOQ Assault') newspaper, he attacked Berlin
> Police President Bernhard 'Arlo' Weiss, calling him "Is SOMer" Weiss. To
> German ears, "Is SOMer" at the time was a name with dubious
> philosophical connotations. Eventually the public believed "Is SOMer"
> was Weiss' real given name and he became a figure of ridicule."
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels