[MD] Greetings and Happy New Year

[Ian Glendinning]

Hmmm, I didn't say "moderated" I really did mean editorial control.

Comment threads on web content are so last decade .... lots of
discussion why they will never work ....your friend should get
depressed, I'm sure Horse doesn't.

(Anyway - Tim / Rapsncows was pure - offensive and downright
aggressive - spam when he was on here, and seems he's the same over
there.)

(Joined your love-fest over there for a day.)
Ian



On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:57 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ian Glendinning
> <ian.glendinning at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> John, when you say "LS" you mean the Google Group called Lila Squad or
>> another site (one of many blog & forum attempts with the Lila Squad
>> name) ?
>>
>>
> j:
>
> Yes, I meant the LilaSquad group that Mary initiated.  It's a small
> discussion group.
>
>
>
>
>> So far as I can see the LSGG is same old same old - Bo calling
>> everyone SOMists and Platt egging him on with anti-democratic rants ?
>>
>
>
> j:    Well Platt posts rarely.  Bo is quite prolific on his own without
> need for much egging.  But I find
> trying to argue with him has been jolly good exercise.  I can't bench press
> 300 pounds either, but trying does build muscle.
>
>
> i:
>
>
>> That plus resurrection of 200 year old philosophic problems long since
>> solved, and a lot of unfiltered spam.
>
>
> j:  you must mean tim there.  I don't think he believes in speaking plainly
> but it's not really "spam" so much as unfiltered craziness.
>
>
>
>> (Surprisingly I've tried to
>> r-engage Bo a few times in the last couple of years, but all he ever
>> does is hurl ignorant insults.)
>>
>> Anyway, incidentally after posting on only a handful of threads on MD
>> in the last couple of years I too was heard to remark in December on
>> seeing a Marsha conversation with Dan that "it was great to be
>> reminded of why I remained subscribed to MD".
>>
>> Sadly very few people on any related discussion site actually listen
>> to any post 1980's contributions. Each finds a refuge on which to
>> argue their own points on their own terms - as if antagonism was the
>> point of the exercise.Twas ever thus.
>>
>>
> j:  well, if so then that itself is an interesting phenom.  But there is so
> little conversation to be had about Pirsig and his ideas,
> anywhere in the world, that the fact that a group of people do so is a rare
> and valuable treat and we all ought to be
> grateful rather than antagonistic.
>
> i:
>
>
>> I've concluded editorially managed channels are the only hope for
>> constructive progress, and there are plenty of those around.
>> Ian
>>
>>
>
> An old friend of mine, Steve Marquis (who used to belong to MD) is the
> moderator for a discussion group on stoicism and he says its getting more
> and more discouraging - the kind of reasoning that passes for sound these
> days.  Tsk tsk.  We are starting to sound like old curmudgeons - kids these
> days don't care about reason, they use logic to justify
> socially-transferred opinions...  but as you say, twas ever thus.
>
> John the curmudgeon
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