From: Erin (macavity11@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 18:02:02 BST
--- Platt Holden <pholden@sc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > [Arlo]
> > I use "conservative" and "liberal" when I am in
> dialogue with Platt. He's
> > made it clear those are his poles, and he's
> stickin' to 'em. I tried using
> > scarequotes with them, to show I was using them in
> a discordant manner.
> >
> > But I think its important to note that its not
> that I don't "get" a
> > "leftist" and "rightist" political meter, its the
> absolute dichotomization
> > of "All Good" and "All Evil" that these labels,
> and those that employ them,
> > bring.
>
> Apparently Arlo doesn't see that his anti-dichotomy
> stance creates an
> equally severe dichotomy -- those in favor and those
> against dichotomies.
> Equally, his condemnation of party lines is itself a
> party line -- those
> who like to refer to themselves as independents.
>
"There are two kinds of people in this world; those
who think there are two kinds of people and those who
are smart enough to know better"
Tom Robbins
MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
Mail Archives:
Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
Nov '02 Onward - http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html
MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net
To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Oct 14 2005 - 20:54:52 BST