LS PROGRAM: Power and the MOQ

[Horse]

Hi Folks

This months topic is:


H.N.Brailsford has said "the crude issue of power... is always the
last of the realities that sensitive and reasonable men can bring
themselves to face".
What, if anything, does the Metaphysics of Quality have to say about
the realities of power.



A couple of quotes to get us started:

"Until the First World War the Victorian social codes dominated. >From the First World War until the Second World War the intellectuals dominated unchallenged.From the Second World War until the seventies the intellectuals continued to dominate, but with an increasing challenge - call it the 'Hippie revolution,' - which failed. And from the early seventies on there has been a slow confused mindless drift back to a kind of pseudoVictorian moral posture accompanied by an unprecedented growth in crime"
R.M.Pirsig Lila Ch.24 P.353 Pub. Black Swan


"The more articulate elements of those groups, the ones who have access to the media, including intellectual journals, and who essentially control the educational apparatus, they should properly be referred to as a class of 'commissars.' That's their essential function: to design, propagate and create a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent understanding and analysis of institutional structures and their functions. That's their social role. I don't mean to say they're conscious of it. In fact, they're not."
N.Chomsky Chronicles of Dissent Ch.1 P.7 Pub. A.K.Press


"I'm not talking about people who want to come by and say "Okay, I'm your leader. Follow me. I'll run your affairs". There's always plenty of those around. But the kind of people who are just always doing things, like whether it was workers' education or being in the streets or being around where there's something they can contribute, helping to organize - that's always been part of the vocation of intellectuals from Russell and Dewey on to people whose names you never heard of but who are doing important work. There's a visible gap there today for all kinds of reasons."
N.Chomsky Class Warfare P.116 Pub. Pluto Press

So is there a conspiracy or confusion or an all out war between Intellect and Society? How does Biology come into the equation. And most importantly what does the Metaphysics of Quality have to say about the whole thing.

Fire Away.


Horse


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