[MD] Correctness and Usefulness

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com>:

> Matt,
> Blame me all you want but I have no more control over the nonsense that
> issues from the keyboards of Platt or Ham than they do.

What nonsense?

> I called Pirsig a
> postmodernist partly because it seems to fit but mostly to annoy those who
> are constantly perverting what he says without seeming to understand him.

Of course, you, the wise one, understand him. 

> OK
> I guess that makes me guilty but I have no idea if Pirsig IS a postmodernist
> or if he even cares. I think the label is one that people like to throw
> around with no idea what it means, like communist, socialist etc.

Tell us -- what do those terms mean?

> Platt
> admits he just makes up definitions for those terms.

So let's see your definitions. Define free market while you're at it.

> Essentially the
> definition for any label he throws around means "baaaaad". So by definition
> Pirsig can not be a postmodernist because Pirsig is goooood and
> postmodernists are baaaaaad. We all know how this works.

You just said you didn't know if Pirsig was a postmodernist or not. 

> Anyway I look
> forward to your more considered reflections on the issues raised earlier in
> this thread. BTW you have an open invitation to join the Krimarlodamo
> collective anytime. We are always attempting to absorb new members. 

Obama also invites all to become collectivists.  


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