[MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality

[pholden at davtv.com]

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

> [Platt to Chris]
> Looks like we share the same criticism of each other's postings. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> Welcome to the Great Pee-Wee, Chris. Expect to see it often with Platt, its his
> favorite rejoinder. I've outlined these tactics before (check the archives if
> you wish), and many others have also commented on it. Mark Heyman, a
> contributer years ago coined the term "Platteral Shift" to describe the
> ridiculous tactics used to move a dialogue from any point of value into the
> mire of one-liners.  A thread in the archives you may want to look over is "The
> Carousel of Faux Philosophy", or search this phrase in general, if you want a
> look into what to expect with Platt. 
> 
> Underlying all this is, as you correctly point out, nothing but apologist dogma
> for the Glorious USA, polarized into the following dichotomy. Good=USA,
> Bad=Everyone Else. Notice how everything outside the USA is labeled is
> "socialist", only America The Superior stands atop the rest of the immoral
> world. Coupled with the moronic "commie" rhetoric you've seen ad nauseum, and
> as Ian said, that's Plattland.
> 
> Outside one-liners proclaiming the greatness of America, the attack on anyone
> who DARES speak against the Righteous States of America, and the Glorification
> of the Lone Individual against the Evil forces of society, you will get this:
> distortion, evasion, deception. And with these attacks are always the same
> devices, Wurlitzers and Pee-Wee's.  Criticize this and you get idiotic
> accusations of "ad hominem" attacks (boo hoo). 
> 
> You can try to be personable, I have (check the archives), but it wears thin in
> the face of this shameful rhetoric. If you go that route, you are a better
> person than I.
 
As the archives clearly show there's many a "better person" than Arlo. 


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