Greetings Platt, Which exact Victorian principles would you like to see reconsidered?
Marsha At 09:21 AM 8/19/2007, you wrote: >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/ 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/
