Because you ignore everything that Pirsig says that doesn't allow you to
shoehorn you're ideological position into the MoQ.
On 17/04/2010 23:20, [email protected] wrote:
Boy oh boy, Platt really gets under these guys skin. Must be he exposes
weaknesses they are desperate to hide. How else to explain their all out
scorn?
On 17 Apr 2010 at 17:46, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:
[DMB]
I strongly suspect that Platt wants to equate intellect with SOM so that he can
then take all of Pirsig's reasons for wanting to expand rationality and use
them to destroy rationality instead.
[Arlo]
Exactly. And to do so he has to ignore half of Pirsig and distort those who do
not. As I said to John, no one is talking about turning "Quality" into an
academic bon-bon, but the MOQ is a "metaphysics", an academic, intellectual,
philosophical framework built around this pre-intellectual concept.
As you correctly point out, where the goal should be to expand rationality as
Pirsig intended, the goal for Platt is only to demonize academics, perfessery
types and intellect as a whole. Why so many these days choose to champion
ignorance is beyond me, but it is an unmistakable trend.
Again, the irony in all this is that it was this same anti-intellectual, damn
the perfessers attitude that nearly cost Pirsig his job in Montana, where the
right-wing anti-intellectuals branded him a "radical professor". I suspect that
if Pirsig were teaching these days, he would be in the same "crosshairs".
[Horse]
... the way to think about what he says is to ask yourself the question "What
would a typical Victorian think"!
[Arlo]
Precisely. Pirsig noted this when he called the modern era a slow drift back to
Victorianism. Where Pirsig would want to replace the "SOM intellectuals" with
"MOQ intellectuals" (expanded rationality), Platt seeks only to demonize
intellect as a whole, and drift back to the dominance of the Victorians.
[Horse]
Now we can sit back and wait for Platt to accuse us of of ad hominem attacks
and/or being lefty commie pinko interleckchuals.
[Arlo]
Yeah. Its just the same substance-free vitriol one hears on the talk-radio
airwaves. I still laugh at the fact that when Platt can't "easily understand" a
book, it must be because the author is an arrogant elitist. I suppose its "Dick
and Jane Visit the Pyramids" for all!
[Horse]
Why is it that when Pirsig states quite categorically that both you and Bo are
wrong about SOL - even going so far as to say that your conclusions undermine
the MoQ - you ignore everything he says.
[Arlo]
This is just part and parcel of the "bumper-sticker mentality". Why bother with
the body of substance when a few acontextual quotes serve much better?
[DMB]
Platt is essentially anti-intellectual and he reads Pirsig to serve that
purpose. For Platt, what Pirsig thinks is beside the point. He doesn't care
about that. He just thinks he found a little ammo depot in his war against
liberals, intellectuals, atheists or basically anybody that doesn't fit his
idea of a decent American.
[Arlo]
Spot on.
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