[MD] First Reference to MoQ ?

[David M]

Ian/Arlo

It is possible, there is hope, we just have to choose it.

David M


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ian glendinning" <psybertron at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] First Reference to MoQ ?


> Arlo ... "the mire of modern day destructive rhetoric" .... the
> paradox of which is that it more and more claims to be objective
> rationale and good clean dialectic ... naming no names ;-)
>
> Here's hoping.
> Ian
> PS Just read Colin Talbot's "Paradoxical Primate" - excellent; I'll
> blog a review.
>
> On 7/31/07, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
>> [Ian]
>> I mentioned to SA that I was reading a 1975 interview of Bob in Oui 
>> magazine.
>> I've uploaded a large [1.6 Meg] scanned PDF copy and linked it under the 
>> 1975
>> entry in my timeline.
>>
>> [Arlo]
>> Many thanks, a very good read. Was struck by some now-apparent naiveity 
>> when
>> Pirsig says "The anger of these antagonists has now run its course, and 
>> people
>> are looking for constructive solutions rather than for destructive 
>> solutions".
>> While it certainly captures the hopefulness of the seventies, it shows 
>> how far
>> we have descended to the mire of modern day destructive rhetoric. "New
>> attitudes of human cohesiveness that will get stronger and stronger" 
>> almost
>> sounds utopic, doesn't it?
>>
>> Or, sadly, "the kids of today have seen that accumulation of material 
>> things
>> isn't any good anymore; that this value has lost its quality and that 
>> people
>> have got to look somewhere else for motivation" is not only antithetical 
>> to
>> modern America, but borderline heretical! But it does make me lament a 
>> bit, and
>> pine for the optimism and wisdom of the seventies.
>>
>> Here's hoping, anyway, that future days are "sunny" for us all.
>>
>>
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