tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17577430.post116258693875647446..comments2024-03-17T02:17:34.680-05:00Comments on Philosophy Factory: Burnt Out Adjunct: Kerry, Kerry, KerryInside the Philosophy Factoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12255753259090709877noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17577430.post-1162841986920466952006-11-06T13:39:00.000-06:002006-11-06T13:39:00.000-06:00I wasn't referring to Kerry. Your extended remark...I wasn't referring to Kerry. Your extended remarks here and on the other blog about your hubby give the impression of 'she doth protest too much'. Which is 'blood in the water' as it bespeaks a sore point requiring the marshaling of vigorous defense, sort of like what you get when a Downs Syndrome sufferer's advocate gets started (i.e. "he's not DUMB he's SMART!"). <BR/> <BR/>Sure it's understandable that you find the attitude and attendant blather from Kerry and his ilk (like the poli sci whatever members people) infuriating. I'm not a fan of that either. It's just that we part ways where response to their idiocy is concerned. You divide your resources: half goes to defense, the enlisted by way of hubby, and half to attack using counterexample as your thrust. <BR/> <BR/>Nicely done as it goes especially since you have a vested interest but my taste in tactic runs a little differently: attack only. If one is any good defense is never necessary. <BR/> <BR/>Verily it is without question good to be mindful of one's audience so the words chosen must be absolutely apt. With that in mind and the fact that I'd wasted time even giving their BS any attention, I'd like to gather all the elitists in a huge room and proclaim to them:<BR/> <BR/><B>Many of you have probably heard of Socrates, some few know the name Descartes, I doubt any of you could even guess about Wittgenstein.<BR/> <BR/>Well off the top of my head, Socrates was a hoplite, Descartes joined up, Wittgenstein was a soldier and you <I>all</I> exist as so many miserable douchebags.</B> <BR/> <BR/>And that's it. Kind of a thermonuclear counterexample if personages 1&2 are understood in historical context at all. <BR/>End of debate, as if there ever was one. Surely you instruct your debate novices using a little of 'The Art of War'? Remember that part about winning a battle before a move is even made? Applies here, in this instance, hence the idiocy tag. <BR/> <BR/>One thing I'd hope you don't tell them, as it is one of things best discovered on one's own, is that debate (disputation, rhetoric etc) is paradoxically among both the highest and the lowest. It is the second and nearly most basic rung on the ladder for the philosopher, necessary and that (remember: "reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, writing an exact man) but mastery of it equals no more than the act of wiping one's feet before entering a house. <BR/> <BR/>For <I>pure assholes</I> like journalists and lawyers, cultivating passable disputation skill is the bees knees and nirvana and all that. Because once they have some, they can go about performing miracles of fraudulence like the "idea" that being enlisted is somehow a dead end.bunglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09038037719693258886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17577430.post-1162685958527362032006-11-04T18:19:00.000-06:002006-11-04T18:19:00.000-06:00I'm not sure what you mean by that -- I have no d...I'm not sure what you mean by that -- I have no doubt that Kerry is intelligent -- but, intelligent people can be ingorant about certain things, and when they speak of those things that ignorance shows...Inside the Philosophy Factoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255753259090709877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17577430.post-1162605052501269522006-11-03T19:50:00.000-06:002006-11-03T19:50:00.000-06:00Never ever fall into appearing that you protest to...Never ever fall into appearing that you protest too much about an individual's intellectual prowess. That's blood in the water. <BR/> <BR/><BR/>And in <I>our</I> neck of the woods, remember that which is purportedly loved, or if one must have an authority, let's ask Heraclitus:<BR/> <BR/>"Much learning does not teach understanding, otherwise it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, Xenophanes and Hectaeus." (fragment 40)<BR/> <BR/> <BR/> <BR/> <BR/> <BR/> <BR/> <BR/> <BR/> <BR/> <BR/> <BR/>(((((One request: would you please remove that annoying word verification feature?)))))bunglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09038037719693258886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17577430.post-1162596131922477002006-11-03T17:22:00.000-06:002006-11-03T17:22:00.000-06:00You have to give Kerry some credit, it takes a lot...You have to give Kerry some credit, it takes a lot of effort to mangle something worse than the President or I could have. It does reveal the elitist attitude of Kerry, his family, and his party. Whenever people are aghast at my voting for Bush I remind them, "the Democrats didn't give us a choice." As an Army brat and a teacher Kerry and his wife have turned me off from the Democratic party for quite some time.Christopias Spritopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11420346152084312981noreply@blogger.com