From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 21:07:36 BST
Hi All,
Mark M writes:
> as many of you may know i have been trying to promote an intellectual
> dialogue with Platt Holden regarding the work of Noam Chomsky, an MIT
> member and acclaimed academic in linguistics.
>
> The dialogue has been most difficult. After some persistence, Platt Holden
> recommended two sources of Intellectual Quality: Ayn Rand and Rush
> Limbaugh. R.L. cannot be regarded as an academic and must be dismissed
> almost immediately.
The notion that one must be an academic to possess intellectual quality is
astonishing. In fact, in Chapter 24 of Lila, Pirsig faulted the low
intellectual quality of academe:
"Phaedrus now thought that part of the professors paralysis was a
commitment to the twentieth-century intellectual doctrines, in which his
university has had a prominent role."
Dismissing the thought of an individual because he isn't an "academic" is
elitism of the worse sort. It has no place in forum dedicated to the free
exchange of ideas open to anybody and everybody.
Regards,
Platt
.
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