I'm sure you meant well, but wouldn't it have been more product
Karen,
I'm sure you meant well, but wouldn't it have been more productive and idea-receptive to make your case about the misinterpretation of Weinberger than to make smug comments and then lash out with insults. When people with different (and possibly mistaken) viewpoints are treated this way rather than engaged about their ideas, is it any wonder that they meet haul-up-the-bridge-and-man-the-turrets resistance with their own haul-up-the-bridge resistance.
This kind of post only takes away from the conversation and doesn't add anything to it. It just makes people more defensive and more likely to be idea-resistant. And that isn't going to move us forward.
Ron Peterson
----- Original Message ----
From: K.G. Schneider <kgs_at_bluehighways.com>
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 9:12:14 AM
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] NGC4LIB by RSS
> Er, maybe I am mistaking Karen's point, but I think she was getting at
> that if this was on a blog, rather than a professional mailing list,
> the outside world be able to weigh in on how Weinberger was being
> written off as a 'misinterpretation of Aristotle' or whatever.
>
> Not that she wants to follow along in Bloglines.
>
> But what do I know?
> -Ross.
Oh, now, Ross, don't spoil my fun! ;-)
The original quote was, "The thing is that I suspect Weinberger has fallen
prey to a naïve reading of Aristotle."
Wherever you weigh in on the miscellaneous/uber-order debate, suggesting
that Weinberger, with his PhD in philosophy and the rest of his track
record, somehow doesn't "get" Aristotle, reflects on the unproductive
solipsism and haul-up-the-bridge idea-resistance of some discussion on this
list.
K.G. Schneider
kgs_at_freerangelibrarian.com
Received on Wed Jun 06 2007 - 07:48:52 EDT