Hi Arlo, Platt, On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Arlo Bensinger <[email protected]> wrote: > [Platt] > Intellect pollutes the world's beauty. > > [Arlo] > Well it wouldn't be a New Year without me disagreeing with Platt > eventually... I'd say that intellectual patterns can be just as "beautiful" > as any thing else. Why would The Buddha not rest as comfortably in > mathematical equations as it does in a symphony or painting? "Intellect" > does not pollute beauty, it can either "channel" it (act "artistically") or > turn its back on it (act "non-artistically"), same as any of the other > "levels", or aspects of human activity.
Steve: I was thinking the same thing when I read Platt's post, but I wonder if Platt's take on intellect polluting beauty is consistent with some of Pirsig's writings nevertheless. Best, Steve 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/
