> Hi Bo,
>>> Steve quotes RMP from LC: >>> "45. After the beginning of history inorganic, biological, social >>> and intellectual patterns are found existing together in the same >>> person. I think the conflicts mentioned here are intellectual >>> conflicts in which one side clings to an intellectual justification >>> of existing social patterns and the other side intellectually >>> opposes the existing social patterns..." > Bo: > I don't know what "problem" he refers to but "intellectual > justification of > existing social patterns" sounds weird. As Pirsig says a person > consists of all levels (at least in the Western world) and the > intellect > will under no circumstances "justify" any social patterns. It's only because of your SOL interpretation that this sounds weird. If you think of the levels as types of patterns of value this makes perfect sense. Here is an example of Pirsig describing the role of intellect: From Lila... "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, never undercut it. Where biological values are undermining social values, intellectuals must identify social behavior, no matter what 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." 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/
