The smartest thing comment referred to Pirsig, not Platt! On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Jon Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
