Beautifully reasoned Asa, and put in a way which illuminates rather than obfuscates. If nothing else, you always did get an "A" for effort in my book. You are rapidly coming clear as being humble as you are wise - things which my criticisms, despite any relevancy or truth they may have possessed, were not.
As I presumed to explain/excuse myself, had I not been so tickled by the irony of your Derrida critique perfectly capturing, to my mind, my own take on much of your rhetoric, I would have remained discreet. In retrospect though, I was by turns too sheepish and defensive - if one's ca-ca meter is set off, and one wants to say so, then one should be entirely up-front and plain about it. But, as you correctly allude to, doing so in a deserving fashion would entail a thorough parsing and point-by-point refuting of your every assertion and implication, something for which I simply lack the interest/heart to undertake. So I should have remained mum, and only smiled, as I had above praised Detlof for being able to do in regards to other matters.
So you keep trying, and I will keep trying.
As I presumed to explain/excuse myself, had I not been so tickled by the irony of your Derrida critique perfectly capturing, to my mind, my own take on much of your rhetoric, I would have remained discreet. In retrospect though, I was by turns too sheepish and defensive - if one's ca-ca meter is set off, and one wants to say so, then one should be entirely up-front and plain about it. But, as you correctly allude to, doing so in a deserving fashion would entail a thorough parsing and point-by-point refuting of your every assertion and implication, something for which I simply lack the interest/heart to undertake. So I should have remained mum, and only smiled, as I had above praised Detlof for being able to do in regards to other matters.
So you keep trying, and I will keep trying.