>Humans seem to have a need for supernatural. So, it will be difficult to
>overcome this inborn tendency, but I believe it is possible to cure MAIDS.
>It may require some very sour medicine (like Objectivism).
>Do you want a good joke? David R. and I were planning to write a book
>together which would cure internet from Level-3 Gurus. It was going to be
>based on Objectivism. For some reason David does not seem to be
interested
>anymore.
Tad--a few months ago we advocated Objectivism and fought against what we
perceived to be "evil on the internet". But I don't see it that way
anymore. You once showed me a grid like this but 4 by 4 and asked how many
squares in the grid.
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l l l
l
l l l
l
l______l______l______l
l l l
l
l l l
l
l______l______l______l
l l l
l
l l l
l
l______l_____ l_____ l
If you make a certain assumption it looks like there are 9 squares, but
that's only 1 way of looking at it. It's like the debate between Nateman
and Tim, both are right from their context, but it seems that one of them
is making a certain basic assumption which leads to a difference of
opinion.
As Objectivists, we made assumptions which colored our views so that it
looked like there was a "Level 3 Guru" phenomenon going on, in which
certain statements would be interpreted as manipulation, when from a
different context, it wasn't. --David R.