[MD] What am I doing here?

[Ian Glendinning]

Ant,
What a refreshing response.
Made my day.
Ian

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Ant McWatt <antmcwatt at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
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> Tuukka stated May 31st 2012:
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> To Ian,
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> 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.
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> Ant McWatt comments:
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> Tuukka,
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> Sadly, I don't think your caricature of the static minded "iconic professional philosopher" is too far wrong.
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> But academic philosophy won't change just because you learn to talk philosophological "dinosaur".
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> It will change because of Dynamic open minded young academics such as those Pirsig heard about at Berkeley just after LILA was published:
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> http://robertpirsig.org/AHP%20Transcript%203.htm
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> 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!
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> https://www.facebook.com/pages/robertpirsigorg/115214385222925
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> Best of luck,
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> Ant
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