[MD] The Arete Initiative

[ian glendinning]

Hi Marsha,

I put "celebrity" in scare quotes. Clearly Bob has had a fair bit to
say about the quality of celebrity. Here I'm just suggesting the
purely pragmatic everyday aspect of it being a "distraction".

Wasn't suggesting any kind of technical assertion or debate of celebrity here.

Ian

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 9:51 PM, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
> At 03:25 PM 4/13/2008, you wrote:
> >Interesting observation SA,
> >
> >Bob's style is indeed more wait and see. Whilst he seems happy to
> >cooperate / suggest pointers to anyone prepared to interact with him
> >on his terms - he's made it quite clear in Lila's Child and in his
> >words at the 2005 conference, that he is not into "active public
> >participation" himself - since his "celebrity" or "authority" are
> >counter-productive distractions.
> >
> >Regards
> >Ian
>
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> Greetings Ian,
>
> Are we being asked to accept that the attribute "celebrity" exists,
> while the "self" does not exist?
>
> Marsha
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> >On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Heather Perella
> ><spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > SA:  Thank you for the defining your style more.  I'll
> > > check out the "post note".  I guess Pirsig stated this
> > > link for you, in a "wait and see" style?
> > >
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