[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Good to know you are still with us and auditing the conversation. Your 
views are always welcome despite the nasty, foul-mouthed response you got 
from Arlo.

[Arlo]
Arlo forgot that in the fabled Land of Rightdom, only "rightists" are 
allowed to be buggers. My apologies, I was operating under the assumption 
that what one gives, one should expect in kind. Apparently, you and Ham are 
the only ones among us with a self-proclaimed right to be uncivil. The 
classic "Pee Wee" operating mode.

At any rate, that I tire of the "Pirsig is a fool, you should all bow 
before the Holy Writ of Essentialism" rhetoric, I make no cover. Its quite 
obvious that Ham has never been here to learn about, or discuss Pirsig, 
only to promote his own "proprietary self". I don't begrudge him that, so 
mostly I ignore him, but when the posts get particularly disparaging 
towards Pirsig ("Frankly, there's more wisdom in that single statement than 
in all the works of Mr. Prisig [sic]."), I feel compelled to respond in kind.

Not to mention that I am tired of this idiotic and asinine "individual 
versus collective" nonsense. It may serve the Party, but does little else. 
The self-congratulatory attempts to paint yourselves as Grand Warriors of 
Individualism and everyone else as Evil Little Marxists Collectivists are 
not only moronic, but wholly propagandistic. And don't even get me started 
on the idiotic proclamation that SQ is "totalitarianism".

Arlo