On Jun 20, 2010, at 9:32 AM, [email protected] wrote: > On 20 Jun 2010 at 5:34, MarshaV wrote: > >> Question: >> >> Conventionally speaking, what do intellectuals do? > > Hi Marsha, > > As usual, Pirsig has the answer: > > "There's an old analogy to a cup of tea. If you want to drink new tea you > have > to get rid of the old tea that's in your cup, otherwise your cup just > overflows > and you get a wet mess. Your head is like that cup. It has a limited capacity > and if you want to learn something about the world you should keep your head > empty in order to learn it. It's very easy to spend your whole life swishing > old tea around in your cup thinking it's great stuff because you've never > really tried anything new, because you could never get it in, because the old > stuff prevented its entry because you were so sure the old stuff was so good, > because you never really tried anything new . . . on and on in an endless > circular pattern." (Lila, 2) > > No wonder intellectuals love loops, strange and otherwise. :-) > > Platt >
Hi Platt, I'm trying to keep my head empty, and all I learn is there is nothing to know and no one to know it. I am so curious to learn what is an intellectual according to the posters on this MD list? Marsha ___ 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
