[MD] What am I doing here?

[Ant McWatt]

Tuukka stated May 31st 2012:

To Ian,

isms could be boring to some. But you see, the iconic professional 
philosopher is a tired old man (not a woman) with a big ego. And he has 
the power, whether he deserved it or not. He will not understand the 
merits of the MOQ if they are not presented to him in a language he 
understands. He will not learn a new language from scratch because of 
his big ego. Isms are the words of the language the tired old man 
understands.
 

Ant McWatt comments:

Tuukka,

Sadly, I don't think your caricature of the static minded "iconic professional philosopher" is too far wrong.

But academic philosophy won't change just because you learn to talk philosophological "dinosaur".  

It will change because of Dynamic open minded young academics such as those Pirsig heard about at Berkeley just after LILA was published:

http://robertpirsig.org/AHP%20Transcript%203.htm

This is the audience that (relatively) new ideas such as the MOQ (or SOQ) need to appeal to so I wouldn't waste too much time and energy on the dinosaurs.  Instead, start a Facebook page - as I have!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/robertpirsigorg/115214385222925

Best of luck,

Ant


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