Hey guys, This quote from Pirsig, by Platt, is the smartest thing I've seen him say to date. However, I think the moq leaves society vulnerable to this very naivety, and guarantees that coercion will need to be brought to bear.
This is what the founders of America knew. You can read such sentiments permeating the founders writings. Look at Washington's farewell address for example. Alexander Hamilton said the same. "We the People" were assumed to be a moral people. One quote by William Penn is typical, "We will be governed by God, or ruled by tyrants". And the history of Marxism eloquently verifies this sentiment. Jon On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Andre Broersen <[email protected]>wrote: > Platt (indirectly, because he does not want to expose himself but, > unfortunately, has nowhere else to hide but behind other people's quotes, > the intelligence behind which he could not even phathom): > > > "What the Metaphysics of Quality indicates is that the twentieth-century > intellectual faith in man's basic goodness as spontaneous and natural is > disastrously naive. The ideal of a harmonious society in which everyone > without coercion cooperates happily with everyone else for the mutual > good of all is a devastating fiction." -- Robert Pirsig, Lila, 24. > > Andre: > And I am absolutely positively convinced, one hundred percent, that he was > talking to you and the likes of you Platt. Shame yourself for having no > other answer to Arlo and me (or for that matter Marx's) notion of betterment > in this world. > > Again, deep, deep shame on you. You do not belong in the MoQ discuss! > > I am truly sorry to have to reach this conclusion. Bet you use your random > quality thoughts (which people admire so much) to finding patterns of carpet > bombing missions to whipe out the afghan/taliban problem ( reminds me of the > scene in Schindler's List when the Nazi boys came back from a hard day's > 'work' wiping out Jews and put on Mozart... to relax by) so you can secure > the fucking gasoline in your car tomorrow morning.( you have actually > suggested this as solution!!!) > > I am finished with your patterns. Unfortunately you are many and the > struggle will continue. > > > > > > 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 > 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
