> [Platt] > Pirsig has advice for those "against society" > > [Arlo] > When Pirsig wrote, "The (moral) Hippie rejection of > social and intellectual patterns left just two directions to go: > toward biological quality and toward Dynamic Quality.", do you think > he now would advocate a third direction, an embracing of social > values and an assault only on intellectual values?
The full paragraph, stating clearly it was a mistake to "against society." "The Hippie rejection of social and intellectual patterns left just two directions to go: toward biological quality and toward Dynamic Quality. The revolutionaries of the sixties thought that since both are antisocial, and since both are anti-intellectual, why then they must both be the same. That was the mistake." > No, no one should reject anything outright without consideration of > "what they were trying to accomplish" (does this include Marxism for > you as well, Platt, or only Victorians?) Lifting a few words out of context. Here's the full passage: "What the Metaphysics of Quality concludes is that the old Puritan and Victorian social codes should not be followed blindly, but should not be attacked blindly either. They should be dusted off and re-examined, fairly and impartially, to see what they were trying to accomplish and what they actually did accomplish toward building a stronger society." 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/
