[Dave] > RMP's underlying liberal political bias (conscious or unconscious).
Firstly, I don't think Pirsig has a political bias (conscious or unconscious). He is applying the MoQ to the social/political situation. Secondly, I think it's a mistake to look for the answer in the history of capitalism or socialism. We had one fellow on the MD that tried to refute capitalism via a description of 1850 Manchester, England (& a misreading of Pirsig). Thirdly, I think the following kind of reasoning is misguided: 1) LABEL1 is S 2) LABEL2 is I 3) I is better than S 4) :. LABEL2 is better than LABEL1. Rather the reasoning should go: a) I is better than S b) :. to the extent that I dominates S within a system, that system is better. Then the discussion can focus on the extent that I does/doesn't dominate S within a particular system. (Of course, this still leaves us with the question I raised a while back: Is it better for high quality social patterns to dominate low quality intellectual patterns or vice versa ?) Craig 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/
