[MD] Quality decline

[Platt Holden]

> [Platt]
> Read the BBC bias report and weep.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Again, there is nothing in the passage from the BBC and the Wikipedia entry
> that are at odds. If you can find a discrepency, please let me know.
> 
> [Platt]
> Further, if anyone has been pushing the value of myths, it's been you.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I argue for the value of myth as metaphor, not the value of ONE myth 
> to determine how we should live.
> 
> [Platt]
> As for the Hippies, we know what Pirsig said about their misguided 
> frivolities.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Yes. They were "the moral movement".
> 
> [Platt]
> But you don't point out how what I say is deceptive and distortive. 
> You just blame your disagreement with what I say on Limabaugh and 
> talk radio, implying that I'm a mind-numbed robot with nary a brain 
> in his head. Nothing personal, mind you. Yeah, right.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I point it out every time, and in context. This revisionism is just 
> part of parcel of the proof of that, Platt.
> 
> [Platt]
> Read your post again. You quoted at length about how liberalism was 
> the party of individualism and freedom.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I said, "This usurption of words leads us to forget that it was 
> liberalism that gave us the liberty we enjoy today." Can you tell me 
> where in that I say anything about a "party"?
> 
> Again, this is just another example of your need to distort rather 
> than address dialogue honestly.
> 
> [Platt]
> See? A personal insult -- "Pee-Wee manuever" -- associating me with a
> despicable character.
> 
> [Arlo]
> As I described previously, and can be seen by perusing the archives, 
> any time you are called on anything,  you end your reply with calling the
> other person exactly what they called you. If someone says you are
> deceptive, you claim the other person is deceptive. I call this rhetorical
> maneuver the Pee-Wee in homage to his "I know what you are, but what am I?"
> defense when he was called anything. Take it personally if you wish, I
> really don't care.
> 
> [Platt]
> You keep threatening to "hang up" on me, but never do. Promises, promises.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I've backed out of several threads with you, Platt. As I intend to do now
> with this one.

One can only hope.