Platt:
I see that all your examples cite individuals. Do you see any evidence of
compassion, caring. love, etc. towards humanity in general, i.e., the
social level? (To say it's necessary is not the same as saying you love it.
In fact, intellect fights for freedom from social conformity and control.
Recall the protest in Tiananmen Square in 1989.)
[ZMM Ch. 24]
"There has been a haze, a
backup problem in this Chautauqua so far;
I talked about caring the first day
and then realized I couldn't say
anything meaningful about caring until its
inverse side, Quality,
is understood. I think it's important now to tie care to
Quality by
pointing out that care and Quality are internal and external aspects
of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he
works is a
person who cares. A person who cares about what he
sees and does is a person
who's bound to have some characteristics
of Quality."
[ZMM Ch. 24]
"He has to care!
This is an ability about which formal traditional
scientific method has nothing
to say. It's long past time to take a
closer look at this qualitative
preselection of facts which has seemed
so scrupulously ignored by those who
make so much of these facts
after they are ``observed.'' I think that it will
be found that a formal
acknowledgment of the role of Quality in the scientific
process
doesn't destroy the empirical vision at all. It expands it, strengthens
it and brings it far closer to actual scientific practice.
I think the basic
fault that underlies the problem of stuckness is
traditional rationality's
insistence upon ``objectivity,'' a doctrine that
there is a divided reality of
subject and object. For true science to take
place these must be rigidly
separate from each other. ``You are the
mechanic. There is the motorcycle. You
are forever apart from one another.
You do this to it. You do that to it. These
will be the results.''
This eternally
dualistic subject-object way of approaching the motorcycle
sounds right to us
because we're used to it. But it's not right. It's always
been an artificial
interpretation superimposed on reality. It's never been
reality itself. When
this duality is completely accepted a certain nondivided
relationship between
the mechanic and motorcycle, a craftsmanlike feeling
for the work, is
destroyed. When traditional rationality divides the world into
subjects and
objects it shuts out Quality, and when you're really stuck it's
Quality, not
any subjects or objects, that tells you where you ought to go.
By returning our
attention to Quality it is hoped that we can get technological
work out of the
noncaring subject-object dualism and back into craftsmanlike
self-involved
reality again, which will reveal to us the facts we need when
we are stuck."
woods continues:
Not sure where your going with care and quality Platt?
woods
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