RE: an arteest

Daniel,
you should really meet some Mensa members. just because some of them are
assholes doesn't mean they're not smart
tina

>A turd with the best presentatation and all the trimmings is still a turd,
>you can count him as a genius, knock yourself out. It reminds me of an
>equation describing a phenomena that leaves out the most significant
>variables, oh well.
>
>Daniel
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: L. Manning Vines [mailto:lmanningvines@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 9:03 PM
>To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>Subject: Re: an arteest
>
>
>Daniel writes:
><< All bankrupt authors, the shelf of idiocy. >>
>
>This hinges on what baggage you're giving "bankrupt." For at least one of
>the men in question, I'm dubious regardless of the manner of the baggage.
>
>As for idiocy, though, I can't but think you're wrong. I might be
>sympathetic to your saying it of Hitler, but being honest, I doubt very
>much
>that he ought to be called an idiot in any typical sense of the word. To
>your estimation of the other, though, I am utterly unsympathetic. He was
>plainly not an idiot, and in fact very far from it.
>
>Very brilliant men, of course, can say and believe untrue things (perhaps
>even more often than idiots turn out to be right). Even if the philosophy
>turns out to be impossible to live by, even if implementing it inevitably
>makes things worse -- even, in fact, if you associate the ideas and
>ideologies of OTHER men to one to whom they do not belong -- the worth of
>the book for learning from, like the caliber and might of the mind that
>wrote it, ought not to be estimated so lowly.
>
>-robbie
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Received on Fri Apr 11 17:28:13 2003