[MD] MOQ and the Future: An Inquiry into Usefulness

[Andre Broersen]

Platt to marksmith:

You are right to worry. Reason has been used to justify horrible
dictatorships. One only need look at Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba
for current examples.As Ben Franklin said: "So convenient a thing it is be a
rational creature, since it enables us to find a reason for everything one
has a mind to do."

Andre:
Hi Platt, up to your right-wing antics yet again. I have taken the
opportunity to peruse the archives whilst I am awaiting the completion of
the arrangements of my work in China.
I am surprised to note you left out China in your list of dictatorships. Any
special reason??

You did forget your own country though. Of course I am observing from a
distance  (and therefore you can easily shoot me down) but what the
neo-cons, money and the Fox- inspired media are doing is a kind of
dictatorial imposition of views as well...with the resultant mass hypnosis
(fed on fear, which is the mother of violence [Peter Gabriel] ). Is this the
type of rationality you subscribe to?

All I am suggesting is to look in your own back yard. I am doing so as well,
A MoQ rationality is nowhere is sight: SOM and money reign.

Platt:
I also see some hope in the connection between the rational MOQ and the
generally accepted morality of caring, compassion and consideration of
others represented by Christianity and Buddhism. Both stem from the same
belief  -- the world as a moral order -- the former derived from a rational
inquiry into the phenomenon of direct everyday experience, the latter based
on mystic revelation.

Andre:
This is strange Platt, Christians being caring, compassionate and
considering others?? Has the recent American Christian  leadership, of for
example, a Bush, Johnston,Nixon, Bush Sr, Clinton, shown this?? Please do
not confuse 'rationality' (in the MoQ sense) with Christianity. They are
opposites.
Have you already forgotten Korea, Vietnam,Chile,El Salvador, Argentine,
Mexico, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Balkan?

My own experience, as a little boy in church (every Sunday), and living in
this so called Roman Catholic village filled me with a sense of horror and
hypocracy towards these self same Christian fellow human beings who behaved
quite differently on the other days of the week...or to be more precise:
they behaved differently in church and were their self same hypocritical,
ego-centric mother little chauvinistic bastards outside of it: business as
usual.

PLatt:
(I'm thinking of some women who exhibit an extraordinary
harmony of sense and sensitivity.)

Andre:
Phffffffffff

'And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make' (Lennon&
McCartney).

Andre