[MD] First Reference to MoQ ?

[ian glendinning]

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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