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From: "Horse" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics
Nice one Dave.
On 28/06/2010 19:20, david buchanan wrote:
Marsha wants to kill the thing of highest value, the most evolved static
quality. Obviously, I feel a great deal of contempt for that sort of
thing. American culture has an anti-intellectual streak that goes all the
way back and at the moment they are quite vigorous. The militia movement
and the John Birchers are overlapping with the tea baggers and the whole
thing is highly amplified in churches, on talk radio and FOX, etc.. Does
any of that serve the cause of integrating DQ into our modes of
rationality? No, of course not. It's just heavily coded white supremacy
and the glorification of social authority, of God, guns and money.
Especially money. Somehow, they got the white working class to believe
that capitalism and freedom are the same thing. In Pirsig's formulation,
political freedom is freedom of the mind. Freedom of speech, of religion,
of expression and the other freedoms named in the Bill of Rights (the U.S.
Constitution) are all about protecting the freedom of the i
ntellect. It's not about the freedom to shop, you know? Not that we
should regulate the malls. I'm just saying that these free-market
cheerleaders have a very shallow and distorted notion of what freedom is.
I mean, anti-intellectualism is not just a stance some MOQers hold. It's a
regressive, reactionary, anti-evolutionary force in the culture. Our
fundamentalists are every bit as bad as the Islamic extremist that they
love to hate. That poison leaks in from a wider world, you know?
[Platt]
Poor DMB and his fellow travelers. He just can't stomach the fact that
Pirsig in no uncertain terms favors capitalism over socialism. Nor can he
accept the fact that intellectuals are taken to task by Pirsig for being
completely ignorant of the role that social moral patterns play in keeping
biological patterns under control. Result: the "social catastrophe" of the
present day. Why are intellectuals responsible for this catastrophe? Because
they are stuck in the rigid frame of SOM.
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