[Platt]
Seems there are a number of MD contributors who have a "compulsive
identification with intellectuality."
[Arlo]
Certainly not any who look to the Hippies, the last moral revolution,
for guidance. As Pirsig said (and you blundered), the Hippie movement
was a moral movement because it was against social AND intellectual
patterns. But where your anti-intellectual zeal always derails is in
its glorification and support of the dominance of social patterns.
This "slow drift", modern conservativism, back towards the last
static latch (social dominance of intellect) is hardly the way the MOQ points.
Indeed, as DMB continually points out, the MOQ as a "spiritual
rationality" is a view that does NOT subjugate "amoral intellect" to
the power of social patterns, but expands the capacity of the
intellectual level, to correct its "defect". DMB has posted
repeatedly those "intellectuals" who, like Pirsig, are behind this
movement, beginning with other Hippies and Beats and continuing to this day.
Since you posted a Pirsig quote, where he mentions "intellectuals"
that have trouble seeing quality, he writes.
"Squares [intellectuals], he said, because of their prejudices toward
intellectuality usually regard Quality, the preintellectual reality,
as unimportant, a mere uneventful transition period between objective
reality and subjective perception of it. Because they have
preconceived ideas of its unimportance they don't seek to find out if
it's in any way different from their intellectual conception of it." (ZMM)
It fairly obvious that his condemnation is not "perfessers", but
those who's S/O mindset prevent them from considering Quality. I'd
hardly say that any "academic" here is guilty of any such
transgression. And since Pirsig himself has both supported and
offered thanks to these "academics" (namely Ant and DMB, since that's
who I assume your charge was against), I'd hardly say any claim that
these two "have a compulsive identification with intellectuality" has
any merit whatsoever.
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