[MD] An MOQ based political system

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> Pirsig knows as well as anyone that pure intellectual pursuits such as
> philosophy are made possible by those in society who "make money."
> 
> [Marsha]
> Sorry Platt, but you don't know what Pirsig knows.  You saying so doesn't make
> it true.  Do you have proof for this opinion?
> 
> [Arlo]
> Especially because it is an inane statement. "Making money" is necessary to
> survive in a capitalist economy, but it is not a prerequisite for "intellectual
> pursuits such as philosophy", as a simple look back through history would show.

Well, why don't you look back through history and provide some evidence?
Money economies have been around since man left the caves. 

> Now, _social patterns_ in the larger sense, I'd agree, _are_ a prerequisite for
> the emergence of intellectual patterns. But "capitalism" is only one of many
> possible social patterns, which has nothing to do with the quality of intellect
> that follows.

Where do you see the word "capitalism" in my statement? And where did you get
the idea that philosophy automatically says anything about the "quality of
intellect?" 

> This is just more of that "normative" propaganda mentioned earlier. Say
> something in passing like it is fact, and it gives it an aura of being factual.
> You are right to call it out.

I have yet to see evidence that it is not a "fact."

> But then, I'm just a lying, deceitful, commie, anti-freedom "lib". Since only
> conservatives tell the truth, you can ignore anything I say and listen to
> Limbaugh instead.

Yet another ill-disguised attack in the continuing campaign on the
part of some to denigrate Platt because his ideas are considered dangerous to
the left's agenda. Bore, bore, bore.



  



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