[MD] Re Arlo

[Platt Holden]

[Platt]
Now the self-appointed superior intellectual claims sole proprietorship of 
certain words.
Nor can anyone be right, except academic Arlo and friends. To borrow a word 
from Bo, "pathetic."



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ARLO J BENSINGER JR" <ajb102 at psu.edu>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] Re Arlo


> [Platt to Ron]
> All the rest is just the usual insults, name calling, bombast and...
>
> [Arlo]
> By the way, I find it flattering that you and Bo always find a way to 
> Pee-Wee
> the words I use in my posts. I mention in my conversation to DMB that Bo's
> ideas are untenable, and the next post from Bo I see he uses the word
> "untenable" to refer to Pirsig's position. My latest post to Adrie points 
> out
> the obvious talk-radio "bombast" deployed by the SIMians and lo and behold
> Platt's reply accuses me of... what else?.. "bombast"!
>
> I'd be flattered if such a manipulative rhetorical technique hasn't been 
> well
> documented and described. Indeed, this "Pee Wee Maneuver", as I call it, 
> is one
> of the more common "talk-radio" rhetorical devices.
>
> [Ron]
> Right about what? his own opinion, the affirmation of your own? How can 
> one be
> right about an interpretation?
>
> [Arlo]
> It's just more talk-radio rhetoric. Why would you or I or anyone "fear" Bo
> being "right"? Aside for the idiocy of such a statement, you can see the
> foolishness of using "right" instead of "better", which is part of the 
> trap of
> "interpretative legitimacy".
>
> For the SIMians, its not about "better", its about being "right", and so 
> the
> valid ground they should be (could be!) standing on is ignored in favor of
> beating the perpetual "we are right and you are wrong" fallacy of who 
> speaks
> for (the now pre-hospitalized!) Pirsig.
>
> [Bo]
> The question is, what makes one better than the other?
>
> [Arlo]
> I admire your patience and your eternal optimism, but the demand for
> interpretative legitimacy, and the aforementioned genre-conflict, leaves 
> this
> unimportant in their view.
>
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