tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post1919052300585357501..comments2024-03-27T21:12:31.654-04:00Comments on Politics and its Discontents: Revisionism Run AmokLornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-70738319304507185612017-01-29T11:38:58.570-05:002017-01-29T11:38:58.570-05:00Thanks for your comments, Domenic. Your observatio...Thanks for your comments, Domenic. Your observation that dishonest people do not fall from grace is an incisive and apt dismissal of the kind of revisionism people like Davis are trying to promote.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-62828768641886270232017-01-29T10:39:36.346-05:002017-01-29T10:39:36.346-05:00What troubles me most about Chris Spence is the me...What troubles me most about Chris Spence is the measures he took, and continues to take in the name of self-glorification. I consider this behaviour a growing pandemic. Chris is not alone in the quest for superiority fueled by narcissism. You can also taste it in the language used to defend Spence by Bruce Davis, “I believe Spence’s fall from ‘grace’.”<br />Grace? Really? Move over Dalai Lama. <br /><br />Dishonest people do not fall from grace. They get caught and are forced to rise out of the gutter. Spence didn’t fall from anything other than his own hubris. I couldn’t agree with you more, Lorne; he got caught and only then did he fess up to his acts of dishonesty. Revoking his teaching license is the absolute least that could have been done to a man who blatantly chose to ignore the foundations of ethical behaviour in the profession he supposedly represented.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13715166002289066677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-48509211892150290872017-01-28T20:06:23.125-05:002017-01-28T20:06:23.125-05:00Thank you, Pamela. Your thoughts are very much app...Thank you, Pamela. Your thoughts are very much appreciated, as always. Your assessment of the nature of true knowledge would shame people like Spence, had he the capacity to appreciate your insights.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-47138637112084152542017-01-28T18:40:59.255-05:002017-01-28T18:40:59.255-05:00I think Lorne one of the greatest gifts one person...I think Lorne one of the greatest gifts one person can give to another is knowledge. To claim that knowledge as your own through plagiarism is a betrayal and contempt for the person who, sometimes through lengthy and rigorous thinking independently made that knowledge possible.The plagiarist also reveals a contempt for knowledge itself. Knowledge is not a value to him. It is just a useful tool that he can use to satisfy his present need of pretending to be the bearer of knowledge that he has stolen from someone else and claimed as his own. <br /><br />This is a really important subject and goes to the actual nature of knowledge.From great thinkers like Aristotle who identified whole systems of knowledge and even taught the fundamental axioms that knowledge is based on, to those who learned and applied his knowledge to the various sciences and political subjects being studied.<br /><br />Much of the knowledge I have learned is from people who have the capacity to originate thought leading to knowledge.I myself do not have that capability. I am however very grateful to those original thinkers.<br /><br />The greatest resource that humankind has is the human mind and its capacity to know.Without the human mind, humans would be extinct.Implicit in Darwins discovery of evolution regarding the origin of the species is the evolutionary nature of the origin of the human mind.<br /><br />Ideas and knowledge are instrumental in building civilizations. When ideas and knowledge are know longer pursued then civilizations fall. That is how important the pursuit and acquisition of knowledge it.<br /><br />It is not an accident that the American culture is now defined by scripture, not by ideas.The anti-intellectualism and anti-knowledge process is the source of the American culture and political decline.<br /><br />The study of the nature of thinking is what epistemology teaches<br />including the accquisition of knowledge.Your Plagiarist Chris Spence is just a cut and paste thinker. The effort of real thinking is something he doesn't chose to do. He leaves that to others then claims the result of their thinking, knowledge, as his own. <br /><br />I would gladly indulge your posting on this subject anytime.It is a subject that greatly interests me. Calling this mans plagiarism an "academic crime" is absolutely spot on!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07842215982128591742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-674290922165592802017-01-28T12:42:15.774-05:002017-01-28T12:42:15.774-05:00Indeed, as Hamlet would say, Owen, "The time ...Indeed, as Hamlet would say, Owen, "The time is out of joint." Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-27976445722533881702017-01-28T11:03:03.274-05:002017-01-28T11:03:03.274-05:00A lot of that is going around these days, Lorne. M...A lot of that is going around these days, Lorne. Melania steals Michelle's speech. Now she's the First Lady.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.com