Mary, > Can you guess where this is going? :) Yes, absolutely. I read your other post to Khoo already and in general agree. ZaMM, in part, is a tale of what can happen when an Ego is wounded early and often.
> It is a profoundly Western idea to say that Orientals (or Indians or > Eskimos) are evolutionarily inferior if they lack our Greek intellectual > inheritance. Where did Pirsig ever say that? He didn't. I agree he did not. But he did point initially to the Greeks as the source of SOM and SINGLE SOURCE of the emergence of the intellectual level. Later he wobbled on that in some comment somewhere I recall but did not clearly dismiss his single source claim. Many people, Bo in particular, have pounded on that "Greeks and Greeks only" intellectual emergence drum, forever. I and others have pointed out the CONSEQUENCES of PIRSIG'S claim over and over to no avail. > Kidding aside, the Intellectual Level is a STATIC Level. You pointed out (I think, but I may be wrong) that you prefer MoValue to Quality. I prefer stable to static. Pirsig uses both synonymously but static implies more rigidity to me, not as plastic. I prefer saying the intellectual level is the most dynamic, but it is also the most unstable. Dave 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/
