[MD] SOM's defect comes home to roost

[plattholden at gmail.com]

On 2 Dec 2009 at 17:31, Andre Broersen wrote:

> Andre:
> Great posts Arlo, but I think you're flogging a near dead horse.
> Platt, and his fellow Plattonians have an ideological belief system
> from which they 'see'. There is no way in the world they will change
> this belief system because of the heavy investment in it...and it is
> not only property,money,wealth and celebrity. Their entire identity is
> based on it and they will twist and turn and distort anything and
> anybody who is not 'with' them.

By contrast you are enlightened, open-mnded, sophisticated, nuanced,
pragmatic, tolerant, flexible, charitable, reasonable and unbiased.

Yeah, right.

> 
> He's been doing this for years now.
> 
> I loath myself for implying the term 'us and them' in a similar way
> Phaedrus recognised within himself what a S/O division had done to
> him... what it had made him into.
> Fortunately Phaedrus has moved on and so have I but I am afraid the
> Plattonians have not and are still strong and very,very anti MoQ. Or,
> perhaps the term 'opportunistic' regarding the MoQ is better. It seems
> to me they have learnt nothing over all these years.

Yes, of course. In your mind you've become another Phaedrus.

> I think it best (for myself) to ignore it. It is like giving a child
> no attention when it is 'good' and loads of it when it is not. One
> only reinforces the negative behaviour. See(!) my argument has even
> reached the level of Skinner's behaviorism.

I think it best to ignore an egomaniac.

Platt