Re: On the Theory and Physics of the Aether

shuba:
>Ilja wrote:
>
>> "shuba" <tim.shuba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb
>> > > http://www.doaj.org/articles/questions
>> >
>> > I note with irony that the above website was conceived by and
>> > uses resources of the very academics whom mountainman Pete Brown
>> > is bashing.
>>
>> The point being?
>
>That the efforts of academics are responsible to a large degree
>for the freedoms that shallow-thinking assholes like Brown enjoy.

If I were an an optimist, I'd say that at least that offers
the potential to recognize depth by contrast.

>> An authority argument is useful and powerful if the authority
>> is accepted by the people I argue with. My own relation to the
>> authority is, instead, not important at all. If I'm bashing Marxists,
>> I like to quote Marx, if I'm bashing Christians it is helpful to
>> quote the Bible, if I argue with Nazis I can quote Mein Kampf.
>> It does not mean that I give a cent to Marx or the Bible or Hitler.
>
>Your analogy fails. Brown is *supportive* of the website because
>it contains works of some people whom he agrees with. Yet
>without the "mind-set of academia" that Brown bashes, the site
>wouldn't exist.

One thing about a weekend ideology, is that it requires full time
hypocrisy plus a lot of overtime to get the message out to other
hobbyists.

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