[Platt to Mark]
Your challenging of popular, static beliefs is refreshing.
[Arlo]
The attempt to reduce all intellectual patterns to faith-based
"theisms" is hardly "refreshing". Its reared its ugly here numerous
times, typically by theistic apologists all pissy because Pirsig
"slighted" their belief in "god", or anti-intellectuals seeking just
another drum to beat against evil perfessers and commie acerdimics,
or right-wing ideologues who pander to fundamentalist christians.
[Platt]
I would add to your statement "There is no right way to believe" a
corollary: There is no right way to think.
[Arlo]
So you too feel that geology and "plate tectonics" are simply
"theisms", along with "angry god punishing voodoo worshipers", and
that neither is better nor worse than each other? I never took you
for such a total relativist.
[Platt]
We often forget (or never realize) that "critical thinking" as taught
in academy is an ideology.
[Arlo]
It isn't, its just a sad drumbeat from right-wing anti-intellectuals
that tries make it so. Pirsig is one of the greatest "critical
thinkers" I've read.
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