[MD] Quality decline

[pholden at davtv.com]

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

> [Platt]
> The good old days when good and evil were easily recognized seems preferable to
> the current slow decline of Quality.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Next you'll tell us the "good old days" can be had by embracing conservatism.
> Am I right? Or is this where you tell us that _YOUR_ nightmare rhetoric is dead
> on, but every other group's is foolish?
> 
> This latest example of deplorable rhetoric only evidences the need for some to
> cling to fear and nightmare, all the while ridiculing fear and nightmare as a
> tactic used by others. (When MY politicians do it, its valid. When YOUR
> politicians do it, its foolish). Rather than rise above the evil, it's apparent
> you'd rather embrace it.
> 
> Of the passage you cite, Pirsig refers to the "current slow decline of Quality"
> as a "slow confused mindless drift back to a kind of pseudo-­Victorian moral
> posture". Since this is exactly what you offer more of, I think I'll pass.
> 
> But you're not going to pull me into another round of vile talk-show rhetoric.
> I'm hanging up the phone. I see Micah was smart enough to simply ignore your
> deplorable rhetorical tactics, mayhap I should strive for his strength.

So what do you offer, besides insults, to stop the quality decline? Marxist
morality perhaps?

 




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