Mary to Steve:
What's left that could expand the Intellectual Level to something greater
than SOM?
Andre:
Hi Mary, Steve. Rationality is of course part of the intellectual level and Mr.
Pirsig describes this as a traditional, conventional rationality. ZMM is about
Phaedrus' quest and his endeavour at arguing for a 'root expansion' of
rationality. I think that the MOQ IS this 'root expansion' and since the MOQ is
an intellectual pattern of value this expansion is also part of the
intellectual level.
(This is a view rejected by Bodvar who refuses to acknowledge that the MOQ is
an intellectual pattern of value and to argue the nonsense that the MOQ is out
of SOM and his own warped understanding then necessitates the MOQ 'emerging'
from SOM and heralding a new level).
'Phaedrus spent his entire life pursuing a ghost. That was true. The ghost he
pursued was the ghost that underlies all of technology, all of modern science,
all of Western thought. It was the ghost of rationality itself'.
'...the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times,
is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really
is...emotionally hollow, aesthtically meaningless and spiritually empty'.
'So I guess what I'm trying to say is that the solution to the problem
isn't that you abandon rationality but that you expand the nature of
rationality so that it's capable of coming up with a solution'.
'We're living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the
topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with
new experiences. I've heard it said that the only real learning results
from hang-ups, where instead of expanding the branches of what you
already know, you have to stop and drift laterally for a while until you
come across something that allows you to expand the roots of what you
already know.Everyone's familiar with that. I think the same thing
occurs with whole organizations when expansion is needed at the roots'.
'Now I want to show that that classic pattern of rationality can be
tremendously improved, expanded and made far more effective through the
formal recognition of Quality in its operation'.
So I would suggest Mary that the MOQ is the expansion of the
Intellectual Level that is greater than SOM.
For what it is worth.
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