Perfect!
He claims to have stopped engaging me…but than after he posted what he first did, he’s back immediately to amend it. To “broaden” the attack on me, personally.
I explained that!
It was only after reading an excerpt from a post of his on another thread, that this new “insight” dawned on me. The “deep down inside” “real me”.
Also, I don’t ignore his posts. Why? Because he is clearly in possession of the sort of mind that I value here at ILP. A genuinely sophisticated, intelligent mind that we need more of. And, again, substantively, I do share many of his own points.
Instead, I suspect that when push comes to shove he is more interested in exploring philosophy in what I deem to be the Magnus Anderson mold over at the value thread: up in the academic clouds where [basically] the technical components of philosophy can be explored. Discussions that consist largely of the logical and epistemological components of value revolving around didactic meaning that comes almost entirely from pinning down the right definitions.
I was genuinely surprised to see KT focus more instead on pedophilia – an actual set of human interactions that involve the manner in which “I” construe the existential meaning of dasein, conflicting goods and political economy.
Also, someone, please note where I have bitched and bitched about him. On the contrary, my main aim in regard to him is encompassed in the OP.
Then of course: Back to me.
No, I am not this way at all for those who wish to engage in an intelligent and civil discussion devoid of huffing and puffing. But for those who do wish to make it personal, I can go there as well. I thrive on polemics. But only if another is also in sync with it.
Unbelievable. My “story” above, profoundly and problematically rooted in dasein, is anything but comforting. How on earth can anyone believe that construing “I” as fractured and fragmented out in an essentially meaningless world that ends in oblivion, be comforted by it?!! Instead, my own comfort is embodied in distractions: music, film, books, art, the good stuff on TV.