[MD] O Captain, My captain

[david]

Rip out the whole introduction. Go ahead, rip it out!

There's an entire branch of philosophy concerned with
      the definition of Quality, known as esthetics. Its question, What is meant
      by beautiful?, goes back to antiquity. But when he was a student of
      philosophy Phædrus had recoiled violently from this entire branch of
      knowledge. He had almost deliberately failed the one course in it he had
      attended and had written a number of papers subjecting the instructor and
      materials to outrageous attack. He hated and reviled everything.
      It wasn't any particular esthetician who produced this
      reaction in him. It was all of them. It wasn't any particular point of
      view that outraged him so much as the idea that Quality should be
      subordinated to any point of view. The intellectual process was forcing
      Quality into its servitude, prostituting it. I think that was the source
      of his anger.
      He wrote in one paper, "These estheticians think
      their subject is some kind of peppermint bonbon they're entitled to smack
      their fat lips on; something to be devoured; something to be
      intellectually knifed, forked and spooned up bit by bit with appropriate
      delicate remarks and I'm ready to throw up. What they smack their lips on
      is the putrescence of something they long ago killed."

> From: antmcwatt at hotmail.co.uk
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 03:19:23 +0000
> Subject: Re: [MD] O Captain, My captain
> 
> In
>  order to keep the Good, Beauty and Love as Forms, I can certainly 
> understand why Plato thought that he needed to ban poets from his 
> Republic.  Robin Williams explained this point eloquently in this clip from "The Dead Poet's 
> Society":
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq_XBP3NrBo
> 
> 
> RIP sweet Captain.
> 
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