Platt: Quality equals reality. Quality equals morality. Ergo, reality equals > morality.
As far as I can tell, you are not rejecting superiority. You are simply expressing your opinion as to what is superior. Right? Ron: Right I am not rejecting superiority and I am expressing my opinion. my opinion is that Quality comes before morality. Quality may not be defined. What I do not care for is how MoQ is used as a measuring staff. I think that RMP used the level system as a model to illustrate The value system of static Quality, not a guide to distinguish An absolute type of morality for it is all about individual opinion. If one Philosophilogolizes Pirsigs MoQ to promote their own opinions They are not reading all of Pirsigs words. The Danger of using MoQ in this way is that of intellectual prejudice Which MoQ does not support. Pirsig rails against prejudice, that is What is so vile about SOM. It evokes a foolish elitist prejudice Which blinds. Much the same way you use the level system to define your Superiority, and in much the same way it blinds you as SOM does. Superiority only exists for the one distinguishing it. Reality only exists to the one experiencing it. Platt: Quality equals reality. Quality equals morality. Ergo, reality equals > morality. Ron: Morality equals experience; ergo your experience is supreme. Immediate Experience pre-intellectually is superior. Experience without intellectual Distinction is the superior morality. Yet forever do you glorify intellectual distinction. Your own specifically. Wrapped in Pirsigs Quotes snipped out of context to support your views Like a fire and brimstone preacher laying out the law in their own interpretation with their own prejudices and sense of righteousness convinced that their interpretation is the true interpretation, never once second guessing the word as it is written. Never taking heed of the contradictions it proposes. The truth is indefinable; Quality is formless And takes on infinite distinction. This is not my opinion, it is Robert Pirsigs. If you ask me to Quote him Then I'm afraid you really do not understand the meaning of my words. Thanks for the discussion Platt, I enjoy the exchange. . ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
