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From: "Arlo Bensinger" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics
Exactly. And I think this gets right at the only motivation for embracing
the "SOL", to demonize "intellect". As I said a few months back, Bo holds
onto the SOL out of a way of elevating "Western" nations (intellectual
people) above what he dismisses as the "social" people of the rest of the
world.
When you read Bo's posts (peruse the archives), you see a definite and
undeniable "western elitism" that he uses to prop of the Euro-American
nations as "morally superior" to the inferior people of the world forever
dwelling in "the social level".
[Pirsig]
Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to
the evolution of life.
A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological
values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture
that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is
absolutely superior to one that does not. (Lila, 24)
[Platt]
Even though Pirsig (and indeed the entire MOQ) contradicts Arlo's
implication that "western elitism" and "moral superiority" is evil, one has
to admire Arlo's self-adoring ability to psychoanalyze people he has never
met.
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