> [Arlo] > > What has been interesting over the years is to witness the psychology > behind this. At the risk of pointing out the obvious, Bo's SOLAQI > seems to be an attempt to place "Western Culture" as the morally > dominant worldview, and reduces all non-Western worldviews to > "social". That is, "we" (Western cultures) are > "intellect", non-Western cultures are "just social", and so our > superiority can be claimed.
[Mary Replies] Don't see it that way, Arlo. Non-Western cultures are SOM-based too. Just as "guilty" of emersion in the subject-object paradigm. There is no difference, as you say too... > The Buddha rests just as comfortably in > semiotics as in gardening. The MoQ is as SOM as SOM can be. It can be nothing else. It's not in a higher level or a separate one. > The MOQ is not a "burn > down the universities" philosophy, it is a "reclaim the universities" > philosophy. It does not condemn "science", it saves it. It does not > dismiss rationality, but it expands its power. As DMB pointed out, > the goal of the MOQ is beautiful science and intelligent art. It does this by explaining DQ in the SOM terms everyone can understand. > The SOL view offers us neither. How so? Best, Mary 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
