Hi Platt, Jorge,
Platt: > Pirsig spends some time describing the influence of celebrities > on society, calling it " ,,, an organizing force of the whole > social level > of evolution." (Lila, 20). Because politics is essentially a > social level > phenomenon, celebrity influence is to be expected. While scientists > have > little public celebrity influence compared to Oprah, they play a > central > role behind the scenes in such politically-charged matters as > economics, > energy, and national defense. Not so behind-the-scenes is the current > politics of "global warming" whose advocates constantly refer to > "scientific consensus" as if that somehow constitutes absolute proof. Steve: In the MOQ, the test for truth includes logical coherence and consistence with experience. In MOQ understanding I don't think "absolute proof" is ever a reasonable expectation. I also have never heard anyone say that they have absolute proof of global warming and I don't see how the immorality of social control over intellect applies here. However, I did just hear about such a situation concerning global warming and the Bush administration's attempts to suppress NASA scientists from talking about it publically on NPR. Please see... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17926941 Would you agree that the Bush administration behaved immorally in this case according to the MOQ? Regards, Steve 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/
