Hi Bo, [Bo] > You seem to agree with my analysis of the LILA passage and > that's the important thing (to me), but follow up with futher quotes > in the same line: > > > "It's a war of biological blacks and biological whites against social > > blacks and social whites. Genetic patterns just confuse the matter. And > > this is a war in which intellect, to end the paralysis of society has to > > know whose side it is on, and support that side and never undercut it. > > Where biological values are undermining social values intellectuals must > > identify social behavior, not matter its ethnic connection, and support it > > all the way without restraint. Intellectuals must find biological > > behavior, no matter what its ethnic connection, and limit or destroy > > destructive biological patterns with complete moral ruthlessness., the way > > a doctor destroys germs, before those biological patterns destroy > > civilization itself." (Lila, 24) > > Here however "intellect" has (again) become the umpire that, > once it has seen the consequences, can settle dispute between > biology and society, but such an intellect is no longer a static > level that has its own important task regarding society - we > certainly don't want a Taleban-like society. The regulating force is > the MOQ and it is not part of intellect, but is the philosophy that > has a 4th. level called "intellect", but this isn't intellect's (while SOM) > own definition of intellect!
[Platt} It does get confusing. In the passage from Pirsig above he seems to be talking about an MOQ-based intellect, but the reader would probably assume that he's talking about an SOM-based intellect. He makes no distinction between the two types yet obviously the MOQ views experience differently than SOM. You have done yeoman duty in attempting to end the confusion. Best, 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/
