Platt says: Dream on, Andre."What the Metaphysics of Quality indicates is that the twentieth-century intellectual faith in man's basic goodness as spontaneous and natural is disastrously naive. The ideal of a harmonious society in which everyone without coercion cooperates happily with everyone else for the mutual good of all is a devastating fiction." (Lila, 24)
Funnily enough I expected this response from you Platt ( don't get me wrong please ..I respect you!). And of course I had this argument of Pirsig's in the back of my mind when I put down these words. What I like about the MoQ is that it seeks to address current, "real" everyday issues and making sense of them within an MoQ perspective so that we can build on this ( this is unlike SOM thinking). In this sense it tries to be very realistic but at the same time constructively set up the possibilities for further growth and development. Given this interpretation I suggest that the potential of MoQ thinking and reasoning gives ( rational) ligitimacy for this kind of "dreaming". In other words it provides a means through which dreams may become reality. But of course you are right. I did not say that we are ready for this yet.... it is a heavy responsibility to be true to yourself. I suggest another 15 generations! "Everybody seems to think I'm lazy, but I don't mind, I think they're crazy running everywhere at such a speed until they find there is no need". Regards Andre 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/
