WOW you mean if you take the word METAPHYSICS out of SOM and give to MoQ, it fixes everything? gosh and I was making it so complicated. silly silly silly
How about we just call reality "Bonerland" and we break it up in a loser/non-loser distinction wait, thats right you have to add the word "Metaphysics" in it to make "Reality" NOW the MOB or metaphysics of Bonerland is reality. awsome I like it. ________________________________ From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 8, 2008 12:32:07 AM Subject: Re: [MD] A fine mess Hi Platt 3 Dec. you wrote: [Bo before] > > You alter between (agreeing with me regarding) SOM as the highest > > static good and as the cause of social decay. I believe the > > metaphysics issue is the fulcrum. Intellect is not SOM in a > > metaphysical sense, merely the distinction in a - um - pragmatic > > sense, and I believe that these two aspects can be kept apart. Platt: > Doesn't that distinction undercut the view of SOM as the > Q-intellectual level? You mean that S/O as intellect undercuts SOM as intellect? Yes, it does and is supposed to, I take for granted that MOQ takes over the metaphysical "rank", leaving only the naked S/O. > > According to the MOQ intellect's purpose is to "tame" social > > patterns (that have free rein under anti-intellect conditions. For > > instance, Nazi Germany was a most law-abiding country only matched > > by Iran these days) and as SOM it did that job, but like the > > sorcerer's apprentice it had learned the start formula but not to > > stop and this was what Pirsig lamented in ZAMM. > Intellect may have "tamed" Nazism, but SOM communism slaughtered more > people than the Nazis ever did. Not surprising considering that for > SOM "There is nothing morally wrong with . . . murder, with genocide." > (Lila, 22) Marx lived in England and took its (intellectual in our lingo) patterns for granted and thought that a revolution simply would take them over, now run by "workers". But being transferred to the despotic Russia it was soon corrupted by social social forces and Marx' ideal schemes were used for the many mad "plans" (collectivization for instance) without implementing any of the said intellectual patterns. Freedom of press, speech ...ect. About "nothing morally wrong with murder" we must translate ZAMM (where SOM was regarded as a-morality taking over from the all-moral Aretê past) to moqish where it was intellectual morality emerging from social morality. In the SOL interpretation that is, orthodoxy however sees SOM a bad intellectual pattern taking over an already present intellectual level (that must have lurked under from times immemorial) to be replaced by the selfsame Aretê-as-MOQ. This makes a true mess of it all and the the MOQ a non-starter. > Even socialism, a more benign form of SOM, has failed. "But what the > socialists left out and what has all but killed their whole undertaking > is an absence of a concept of indefinite Dynamic Quality." (Lila, 17) > SOM has also been blind to society's role in controlling biological > forces. "In the battle of society against biology, the new > twentieth-century intellectuals have taken biology's side." Result? > "Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and > a moral and social nightmare . .. ." (Lila, 24) Yes, SOM=intellect (before the MOQ was bad for the said reasons, but remember that the intellectual patterns (freedom of speech, press, independent juries, parliamentarism, human rights and worth) are all moral to the core, only when intellect came to be the "standard model" in the West it continued its crusade against social law & order, not having any means of knowing when enough is enough. This is what the MOQ provides But here's the crux. S/O (in our modern mind/matter form) have philosophically ramifications of creating paradoxes and these torment those who think like young Phaedrus did. He wasn't bothered by the "aesthetic ugliness" that Andrè points to (this was the later Pirsig who wrote ZAMM) but was haunted by the inconsistencies he found in the mind/matter dualism, and - after many ordeals - the Quality Idea. > So on three counts, SOM intellect has not and can not regulate society > with anything other than detrimental effect. The survey of students > mentioned at the outset above reveals SOM's destruction of essential > social constraints. But, that's just the tip of the iceberg. A much > more significant outcome of SOM's damage to the general welfare in the > name of the "public good" is the current economic crisis. Society is dominated by (controlled by) intellectual value in the Western culture, and this intellectual over-control will be checked when/if the MOQ comes to be "standard model". > Since SOM intellect is so damaging as I've outlined above and by going > "too far" as you say, I cannot help but wonder why Pirsig didn't come > out more strongly for less intellectual (government) control of > society except to protect individual rights and promote free markets. > But, nobody's perfect. :-) Well he does in your example "In the battle of society against biology, the new twentieth- century intellectuals have taken biology's side." Result? "Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare . . ." (Lila, 24) but the ill-conceived intellectual level prevented the MOQ from being such a moderator IMO Bo 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/ 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/
