Marsha original statement was: > Maybe in the West many more intellectual patterns have became > cancerous and dominant.
Marsha repeats: All intellectual patterns are not cancerous, though, all intellectual patterns are SOM. Intellectual patterns are misconceived as independent self and other. On what basis does your "I think" of agreement with Arlo exist? By mistaken identity! On May 11, 2010, at 7:13 PM, david buchanan wrote: > > Arlo said (repeatedly): > > > .., if all intellectual patterns are SOM, what exactly was Pirsig lamenting > in ZMM? If "intellect" can be nothing else but SOM, then what's the beef with > Aristotle? And those Sophists, they were peddling SOM too. > ... I think that calling "intellect" nothing but SOM achieves this. It puts > intellect as a whole as a cancerous element atop society, it makes > "intellect" at best something to be overcome in an otherwise harmonious > evolution. Of course intellect should have moral dominance over society, but > I think Pirsig's point of asking "was this the pattern intellect was going to > run with?" shows that intellect-as-SOM is the problem. > > > dmb says: > > I think that's exactly right. SOM is the flaw, the disease and is not to be > confused with the patient. That's what happens when you equate SOM with the > intellect level; instead of saying the patient HAS cancer you say the patient > IS cancer. You don't have to be a doctor to see what a huge mistake that is. > > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with > Hotmail. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 > 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
