Platt, To view things as a baby and how Pirsig mentions, is to drop the stereotypes we hold and take a fresh new look. Like looking at the positives of socialism communism and capitalism and combine them to create a society that actually DOES value the individual, valuing individuals other than YOURSELF is socialism you know. That is why I have a hard time understanding your dichotomy of value of the individual in society yet despise anything that has to do with it . You exalt the diversity of individuals yet despise multiculturalism when what you really despise is moral relativism, Pirsig gives us a way to make moral judgments without the typical stereotypes that hinder us from making Quality judgments or the paralysis of relativism. I'll save you the effort of the Lila quote.
In the veldt it's the individual that gets eaten first. United we stand, divided we fall. Safety in numbers. The idea is to look at the Quality in everything Platt, this is what babies do. ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 7:49:34 AM Subject: [MD] Think like a baby All: There's a book out called "The Philosophical Baby." The Boston Globe has an interesting review at: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/04/26/inside_the _baby_mind/?page=full If you read it I think you'll be reminded of Pirsig's thoughts about the world as seen by babies in Chapter 9 of Lila. Perhaps you'll recall these words: "This, Phaedrus thought, was why little children are usually quicker to perceive Dynamic Quality than old people, why beginners are usually quicker than experts, why primitive people are sometimes quicker than those of "advanced" cultures." To perceive DQ -- isn't that our goal? The article suggests how we just might be able to do that more often. Regards, Platt 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/
