Platt: Hey Andre, You do a fine job of criticizing me. So I ask, "What social/political/economic system do you support?" I hope your answer won't be based on an SOM ideology like Marxism, or a mix of SOM ideologies.
Andre: Platt, what I have tried to make clear is that I do not criticise you. I criticise some of the ideas that you hold and I believe the spin-offs of those ideas make you evade every possible question with regards to the soundness or otherwise of these ideas. (as any educationalist or other relevant authority knows, one should not criticise the child but the behaviour of that child...there is a huge difference). As to your second question, I do not support any system. I support and look for the good (don't ridicule...its true). It hasn't made my life any easier. It did become a little easier when Pirsig's MoQ appeared on the scene.( that's why I was so happy and relieved after I read ZMM and later Lila). Now I am learning to present words and arguments to support my so called 'subjective, naive, simplistic,feminine, intuitive, ideological' feelings about myself and this world of which I am an organic part. It is difficult to look and think beyond SOM because we, in the West have been born into it. This should not stop us from confronting ourselves with the implications of this view (within ourselves and outside us, as much as Pirsig himself did). This inevitably leads to questioning one's (social/ cultural,religious, political/economic) origins (and the philosophies underlying these) if not downright condemning some of its results. Lets put it this way: some patterns have more quality than others. This is what the MoQ has opened up for me and sometimes the confrontation is not easy. For what it is worth. 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/
