[MD] re, fellow european-Bodvar

[plattholden at gmail.com]

As we all know, verbosity to you is a virtue, hilariously illustrated in this 
overblown diatribe.  

On 16 Apr 2010 at 12:27, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:

> [Platt]
> Right. If I don't understand the superior intellects of Arlo and his academic
> aristocrats, it's my problem. Apparently his arrogance knows no bounds. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> Everyone else understands me. And not just people I know "in the academy". No
> one else I know is so confounded by what I say as you. I could, of course, try
> to dumb things down for just you, but given that everyone else understands me
> just fine, I'll decline...
> 
> By the way, the first time I read James Gleik's book on Chaos, I said to
> myself, "wow, this is really above me", and so I read more and learned more and
> studied more, and now its quite a simple read.
> 
> But I never once thought "that elitist Gleick and his arrogant belief in his
> superiority". How ridiculous would that be? 
> 
> Now, about "arrogance", another evasive lie. Don't you ever feel the slightest
> bit of shame for your atrocious rhetoric? So let's take a look...
> 
> [Arlo previously]
> People write for an audience. When that audience is more knowledgeable, people
> can write at higher levels of complexity. History books written for fifth
> graders do not bear the intricate analysis as university textbooks. If you
> can't "effortlessly understand" what someone writes, maybe the problem is with
> YOU? Naaaahhh... must be those big bad intellectuals...
> 
> [Arlo adds]
> Where is the "arrogance" in this? Is it "arrogant" to give the university
> student a textbook that's more complex than "Dick and Jane in England"?
> 
> So in a philosophy forum, who is the "average reader" you feel can't keep up
> with the "academic" talk? I mean other than you. Is it arrogant for DMB to talk
> about the nuances of James' ideas? Or John to post with a synthetical analysis
> of Royce and Pirsig? Just how "dumb" do you think the "average reader" is here?
> 
> Let me see if I understand. When YOU can't understand something, its not YOU,
> its the fault of an arrogant, elitist author who hasn't dumbed down his writing
> enough for YOU to be able to easily understand it?? Ai yi yi...
> 
> Viva l'ignorance!!
> 
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