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[plattholden at gmail.com]

Since Arlo cannot present a logical argument (a four-year old knows 
other people are always around) he resorts to name-calling and 
demonizing. Typical leftist tactic, as Tea Party patriots are learning.    


On 6 Apr 2010 at 9:54, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:

> [Platt]
> Arlo can rave on about "social-historical space" and other pompous
> abstractions, but Jon is right.  "A tribe can change its values only person by
> person and someone has to be first". (Lila, 9)
> 
> [Arlo]
> Pompous? Oh, sorry, I forget how polysyllabic words are "elitist". I'd try to
> speak the language of talk-radio for you, but I don't know how to grunt what I
> said. 
> 
> In any event, "someone has to be first" happens only when someone else in that
> social-historical place, AND it happens only after the "someone" has
> appropriated the collective consciousness, as Pirsig points out repeatedly
> (20th century French culture exists, there Descartes thinks, therefore he is).
> Until he appropriated the social culture of his surround, the only thing
> Descartes could be the "first" to do would be biological behaviors. 
> 
> But again, as is so typical of the sophomoric "understanding" you bring to the
> table, you demonstrate that you don't understand a word of what I wrote (those
> big elitist words?), make no effort to try to do so, and instead respond with
> an idiotic rejoinder that serves nothing but your ridiculous little "war"
> between "collectives and individuals".