Quoting Krimel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > Thanks for backing up Pirsig (and me): "A tribe can change its values only > person by person and someone has to be first." X is first, then Y, Z, P, Q > and X+n -- each individual person by person. But without the primacy of > inventor X, the rest could never follow. > > [Krimel] > But without 'n' X goes unnoticed. Are you just not paying attention here? > Why is it so hard for you to acknowledge that individuals are important but > in the context of the group? What meaning does 'first' have outside of its > social context?
First has no meaning without a second, third, fourth, etc., just as one has no meaning without many. Those are givens. What seems hard for you to acknowledge is individuals we're talking about are human beings, not ants. ------------------------------------------------- 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/
