Hi Mary, On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mary <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello again, > >> Question 1: What is the Intellectual Level, and specifically, what >> makes it different from the Social Level? > > Pirsig was nothing if not subtle. Hehehe! True, he went on for two books > ranting and railing against everything from World War I, the Hippies, > Victorians, and people with more money than brains who could afford to buy > elegantly engineered mechanical equipment without the slightest appreciation > for how it works. But on one point he was pretty muddy, leaving it to the > reader to have the pleasure of working out the difference between the > levels. All of them are up for grabs and have been hotly debated. > > The key. As the teacher says to her class right before the test, "If you > don't remember anything else out of this class, remember this." The thing > that makes the whole construct of the MoQ WORK is the idea that sets of > patterns only achieve the status of a Level when they cease to support the > level they are in and go off to meet ends of their own. Brilliant!
Steve: Do you have any text to support this claim? As far as I know there is nothing to the notion of attaining any special "status of a Level." Pirsig uses "level" to refer to a type of pattern of value. I think that as soon as there were any intellectual patterns there was an intellectual level since the intellectual level refers to the collection of all intellectual patterns. 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/md/archives.html
