[MD] [Bulk] Re: Humanism

[Platt Holden]

When Pirsig says DMB's thinking is brilliant, whether otherwise on one issue
or not, I'll be the first to congratulate him instead of trying to demean
him in a pitiful effort to build up my ego.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:40 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> Platt said to Marsha:
> .., I humbly offer a Pirsig accolade that is forever writ in Dan Glover's
> book, Lila's Child: "God knows the MOQ has never had two better friends than
> Bo and Platt, so this is no criticism of their otherwise brilliant
> thinking." Yes, Mr. Pirsig is not only a good man but also a good judge of
> "brilliant thinking."
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> dmb says:
> Even THIS is a prime example of dishonest, selective reading. If you're
> going to take the praise from Pirsig, you also have to take the criticism.
> This "accolade" exists in a context. What about the next sentence? What
> about the fact that he's commenting on some thinking that he finds less that
> "brilliant". If memory serves, this is the quote where he goes on to say
> that your idea of the intellectual level undermines the MOQ. And all the
> best MOQers have been giving you evidence and explanations as to how and why
> that view undermines the MOQ over and over again for years. If you're
> willing to believe what he says about your brilliant thinking, you also have
> to be willing to believe what he says about your ideas when they are
> "otherwise", when they are not brilliant and when they are destructive.
>
> Where's the honesty? Where's the humility? Where's the reasonableness?
> Where is the intellectual quality?
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