> Chris said: > ...There can be no question in anyone's mind that the consumer-culture > that drives both individuals and entire nations to take the most rash > actions in order to sustain it, is a system that is totally, and > fundamentally a product of what the MOQ identifies as social level. > > Platt replied with a quote: > "A free market is a Dynamic institution. What people buy and what people > sell, in other words what people value, can never be contained by any > intellectual formula." > > dmb says: > The trick is to see that both things are true. Money is the measure of > social value AND the free market is a dynamic institution. Not only that, > but it's also true that the MOQ says an intellectually guided society is > more moral than one guided by social value. Platt reads "selectively" and > that's the part he always leaves out. And that's exactly the problem with > today's free market advocates; they think the market is the answer to > everything and that means social values rule. > > In any case, it's wrong to imply that the MOQ supports these > anti-intellectual attitudes. I really don't see how an honest reader could > come anywhere near that conclusion.
"It is not that Victorian social economic patterns are more moral than socialist intellectual economic patterns. Quite the opposite. They are less moral as static patterns go. What makes the free-enterprise system superior is that the socialists, reasoning intelligently and objectively, have inadvertently closed the door to Dynamic Quality in the buying and selling of things. They closed it because the metaphysical structure of their objectivity never told them Dynamic Quality exists." (Lila, 17) "Phaedrus thought that a Metaphysics of Quality could be a replacement for the paralyzing intellectual system that is allowing all this destruction to go unchecked. The paralysis of America is a paralysis of moral patterns. Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject-object metaphysics that dominates present social thought. These subject-object patterns were never designed for the job of governing society. They're not doing it. When they're put in the position of controlling society, of setting moral standards and declaring values, and when they then declare that there are no values and no morals, the result isn't progress. The result is social catastrophe." (Lila, 24) 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/
