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"D. Simmons" <[log in to unmask]>
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The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky
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In a message dated 3/5/02 9:42:21 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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> To argue about the issues is only useful when everyone is doing so in
> good faith. An argument is not the same as an apologia, which is what
> this particular person always comes up with. Like a politician, he has
> no genuine interest in getting at the truth, only in concocting a
> plausible sounding justification for the current unjustifiable power
> structure.
>

  Truth? Your pretense to a lust for 'truth' is represented by a pursuit of
trivial differences over minutia 'argued' among those who have created a
like-minded comfy little paradigm of non-inquiry beyond which you fear to
tread.

  Remain in your bubble if you like, but do not pretend to a superiority you
do not possess.
Yours,
Issodhos
p.s. Don't read this.:-)

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