[MD] The Level of Intellectual Quality

[david buchanan]

John said:
Even a guy's wife can't understand everything I guess.  I shouldn't get upset then at e-communications and the misunderstandings that arise therein. The most discouraging thing was what dmb said, but it wasn't his misunderstanding of me that was upsetting, it was his comment about Dan's buddist story, some vague thing about a sign, he says. See, that was discouraging.  Because I, like Marsha, absolutely love that story. ...And dmb, evidently, didn't even recall the music and poetry in that simple prose koan.  ...What's discouraging beyond hope, is that evidently he doesn't believe in good.



dmb replies sarcastically:

Oh, yea. I know exactly what you mean. When people only vaguely recall a story that I love, it's just devastating. Sometimes I mope around for days when people don't recall the details about the things I love. And this memory lapse reveals their true nature of course, as a person who doesn't believe in good, as a person who doesn't "get it". Sigh. What's wrong with people? Why can't they obsessively cling to the things I love? I mean, if I love it and they don't, well obviously that means there is something wrong with them. 

For example, people who choose vanilla when they could've had chocolate ought to be shot. How dare they!

And the nonsense just keeps gets deeper, doesn't it? Good advice for guys stuck in holes: Stop digging.




 		 	   		  
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