Quoting david buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hamza Zeytinoglu said: > If anybody is interested, I would like to get your ideas on an attempt to > re-define politics (in MOQ terms); Politics is social activity with the > goal to enable or to prevent the movement of static value from one group to > another (creating change or maintaining no change). > > dmb says: > Hello HZ. Chapters 21 and 22 of Lila both focus pretty heavily on politics. > Pirsig uses a bunch of historical examples to explain the political > conflicts of the 20th century. He paints it as a clash between social level > values and intellectual level values. The shift from traditional power > structures to intellectually guided societies is some kind of evolutionary > leap. Its not just a shift from the static to the dynamic, although that's > certainly part of the equation too. Anyway, those chapters will elaborate on > the idea with specific names, historical events and ideologies involved in > the drama. Check it out.
Platt says: Pirsig, I hasten to add, pointed out that modern intellect, in its attempt to guide society, contains a fatal flaw, namely, an inability to acknowledge the existence of values. Thus, the "evolutionary leap" has fallen into an abyss. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
