[MD] DMB and Me

[Matt Kundert]

Dave logged his repeated complaint that I don't understand 
James, and I logged my typical response (a shrug that I still 
don't get it), but somehow the back and forth continues on 
interminably way past the point at which either of us 
represent ourselves very well.  Since I have nothing new to 
say about James, or this so-called debate/disagreement 
between Dave and I, I wanted to simply reference the last 
interesting thing I did think of to say, contained in a post at 
my site (in case anyone was interested in our nattering):

http://pirsigaffliction.blogspot.com/2010/01/discussion-with-dave-buchanan.html

But, once again in case people don't understand, I am 
confessing that I am not smart enough to understand Dave's 
representation of James and radical empiricism.  I am also not 
professional enough to research and prepare my philosophical 
opinions with a respectable amount of work to be able to 
defend them in the public arena against criticism.  I am, in 
that sense, an amateur.  I am a poseur.  My sentences may 
seem to have the affectation of a smarter, academic person, 
but it is all an act, a show, a grand illusion that I never meant 
to create, so much as I started to unconsciously emulate the 
writing of people I read.  The irony is how much the academic 
affectation annoys people here.  The tragedy is that I know 
not how else to compose myself.

Matt
 		 	   		  
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