DmB,
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:03 AM, david <dmbucha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > John said to dmb: > ...demonization polarizes and makes change into a power struggle and > conservatives insist upon having all the guns so it's a losing strategy. > ...And I believe we've all fallen prey to that same bug-a-boo of demonizing > opposition. 3rd level and 4th do often conflict, but they are intricately > interwoven and it might be more accurately analogized as a dance, rather > than a fight. > > > dmb says: > Pirsig describes this conflict as a century long hurricane involving war > and lesser ideological conflicts involved. To call it a "dance" is pretty > far off the mark, I think. John: Ok, I get you. It's been a huge fight, I agree. But I was asking, does it have to be? Metaphysically speaking that is. A bitter conflict carried forward ad infinitum just seems so depressing. And fatal. > It also seems quite inaccurate and more than a little condescending to > characterize my complaints as a "demonization" or polarization, especially > since I was complaining about the demonization of Dewey. > > If I demonize you or polarize our dialogue then I'm certainly not practicing what I preach so... you're right and I don't want to do so. But I do want to talk about Deweyean idealisms such as viewing problems non-antagonistically. And also I want to apologize to you especially for all the antagonism I generated in the past. I was still young and ignorant, way back then. John > > Check this out. Dewey, creative education and real democracy - in less > than three minutes... > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdV2YMpF0tA > > Nice. It sparked a whole morning's video viewing ending with Ted Zak's TedTalk on Love, Morality and oxytocin. I had some take-home ag work today and was glad to have some interesting stuff to think about. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
