From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 15:15:53 BST
[Arlo previously]
Good. I've sent a request to the Myrtle Beach Water Authority to
"de-collectivize" your water into individual protons, neutrons and
electrons. Since their value is in their Randian isolation, I'm sure
they'll quench your thirst better than that blasted evil Marxist collective
"water". Those protons that refuse to "de-collectivize" will be forced to
listen to the EIB network until they recant. Damn commie protons.
[Platt]
Guess you don't get it. Without individual protons, neutrons and electrons
you wouldn't exist to request anything.
[Arlo]
One more try. I do value the individual Ps, Ns and Es. But if that's all they
ever were, "we" wouldn't exist. If all there were were "individual protons,
neutrons and electons", we wouldn't exist. Because of the evolutionary
collectives, "we" do. Elsewise, there'd be just a bunch on individualist
protons floating around space and nothing more.
Ps, Ns and Es collectize into "atoms", which collectivize into "molecules" like
H20, which collectivize into "water", etc. At each level of collectivization
value is exponentially increased. The collective whole is greater than the sum
of its parts... no matter how wonderous one particular proton happens to
believe itself to be.
[Platt previously]
But, I gotta admire the way you beat a simple analogy to death.
Very creative. :-)
[Arlo responded]
Is that an sly insult? Coming from a (gasp!) "conservative"? Or just an
admission of defeat?
[Platt]
A revealing look at the liberal mindset. Oh yes, I'm defeated, battered,
and beaten, just as you and your fellow leftists would like to defeat Bush
and all conservatives and pack them off in boxcars to to your gulags to
never be heard from again.
[Arlo]
That's right, Platt. My secret agenda is to send you off to a gulag. You broke
the code. Damn.
Actually I was responding to what I perceived to be a "jab" quid pro quo. In
that spirit let me say, your response is a revealing look at the conservative
mindset. Able to dole out insults and ad hominems, but always crying foul when
volleyed back. :-)
Now... off to the gulag with you.
Arlo
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