Hi All, The U.S. is still reeling from the execution style killings of three college students in Newark, NJ two weeks ago. The murders appear to be gang related. I couldn't help but the be reminded of this prescient passage from Lila, 24:
"What's coming out of the urban slums, where old Victorian social codes are almost completely destroyed, isn't any new paradise the revolutionaries hoped for, but a reversion to rule by terror, violence and gang death -- the old biological might-makes-right morality of prehistoric brigandage that primitive societies were set up to overcome." Those who cringe at the thought of a return to Victorian values may want to consider Pirsig's advice: "What the Metaphysics of Quality concludes is that the old Puritan and Victorian social codes should not be followed blindly, but should not be attacked blindly either. They should be dusted off and re-examined, fairly and impartially, to see what they were trying to accomplish and what they actually did accomplish toward building a stronger society." (Lila, 24) Regards, Platt 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/
