Hi Chris: [Arlo] >Rail against repressive social patterns that > immorally suppress intellectual patterns, but do not mistake the MOQ for a > metaphysics that sees sociality as repressive, far from it, it considers it > to be the foundational from which intellect emerges.
That the MOQ sees society as repressive of intellect is obvious, as witness the following quote: "Intellect has its own patterns and goals that are as independent of society as society is independent of biology. A value metaphysics makes it possible to .see that there's a conflict between intellect and society that's just as fierce as the conflict between society and biology or the conflict between biology and death. Biology beat death billions of years ago. Society beat biology thousands of years ago. But intellect and society are still fighting it out, and that is the key to an understanding of both the Victorians and the twentieth century." (Lila, 21) That is why I find the whole idea that you and I are chained to social patterns and cannot ever be thought of independent selves and free agents to be utter nonsense. Pirsig himself demonstrates how an individual intellect can overcome dominant social patterns and be free-thinking "loner." 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/
