> [Platt] > Pirsig makes clear the Hippies went against society: > > [Arlo] > And he makes it clear it was a moral movement in doing so.
A moral movement that failed because: "Anarchy became the most popular politics and squalor and poverty and chaos became the most popular life-styles. Degeneracy was practiced for degeneracy's sake." (Lila, 24) > [Platt] > The most important Victorian value we ought to "dust off" is the free > market, > a value Marxism rejects outright. > > [Arlo] > You mean go back to the 1890s? Yes, by all means try to sell that one! But > what > other Victorian moral codes should we dust off? And, which do you feel > we > should abandon? > > So you think that its only "Victorianism" that we should "dust off" and > examine > to "see what they were trying to accomplish"? Small wonder why the path > you > promote is the retrogressive one Pirsig describes. You mean dust off Hippie values and return to degeneracy for degeneracy's sake? The free market is retrogressive? > > [Platt] > "Indian values are all right for an Indian style of life, but they don't > work > so well in a complex technological society." (Lila, 22) > > [Arlo] > Especially one dominated by a "paralyzing (S/O) intellectual system". > Maybe if > we could overcome that system, we could re-examine what Indian values > should be > considered as well, a central point to LILA. Agree. S/O has gotta go. 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/
