[MD] The MoQ agency problem

[david buchanan]

Marsha said to dmb:
Hahahaha...  You ask Ham to think, but what you are really saying is that you cannot think or explain for yourself so accept your second had source from Wikipedia.  Intellectual competency?


dmb says:
No, what I'm saying is that the problem with SOM can be understood from any number of perspectives. In this case, we can quote a Wiki article or a passage from Lila or from the works of William James or from the writings of Nietzsche. Nobody has to take my word for it and this is not an idea that belongs to me. Intellectual competence in this area means, among other things, the ability to enter into a public conversation that's been going on since before you and I were born and will continue after we're dead. In a nutshell, discussing an age-old philosophical problem is not for idiots. You gotta pull your head out of your ass and look around at what's already been said. It requires a decent respect for the thinkers who got there before you. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of self-centered, self-absorbed, solipsistic bullshit. As Crawford put it, idiocy is both a cognitive and an ethical failure. In other words, it's stupid and sleazy.