From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 31 2002 - 17:25:42 GMT
Mari, John,
John said:
most of what I was seeing here looked like a macho pissing competition
Mari added:
i wrote a post around Thanksgiving that i never sent where i used the term
"intellectual pissing contest". i wonder if anyone else had similar thoughts?
Matt:
There have been many. But I know for sure that John B. (who hasn't been
posting a lot lately) and I have. I took the pattern of this website and
construed some philosophical consequences from it, however. As I realize
that more and more people are coming on and not knowing what weird, alien
pattern of thought I'm on about (to steal Pirsig's phrasing of the
Committee), I'm going to reprint a revised version of the original
"Confessions" post (with punctuation this time ;-) where I first started
off on my extended excusus' into Rorty's world and the issue of
argumentation is central. For people who've already read the original,
there isn't anything new in this one, so you can skip it if you don't want
to read it.
On an unrelated note, I received a little framed tablet from my fiance's
mother which read:
"Men of Quality are Not Threatened by Women of Equality"
Now, all the letters are capitalized on the tablet, so its not like it
directly referenced what we would call "Quality." But what's funny is that
she doesn't know anything about my realtion to Pirsig. The significance
for me is that I read Pirsig (Man of Quality) and my fiance is a Women's
Studies major (Woman of Equality).
Pretty crazy.
Matt
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