On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:48 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]>wrote:
> > "the MOQ goes on to say that science, the intellectual pattern that has > been appointed to take over society, has a defect in it. The defect is that > subject-object science has no provision for morals" (277) > > > Despite that flaw.... > > "a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social > values is absolutely superior to one that does not." (311) > [Platt} You leave the impression by taking this quote out of context that Pirsig supports your dull-city, liberty-smothering socialist-communist allegiance. And you accuse me of intellectual dishonesty? > > > My point? I'm not just saying hurray for my team. I'm talking about the > MOQ's diagnosis and Pirsig is not shy about naming names with respect to > political ideologies. The idea is to sort these things out, to make sense of > the conflicts that continue up to this day. And yes, the tea party folks are > obviously reactionary neo-Victorians and I think they can be very clearly > seen as such in the light of the MOQ's analysis. > > [Platt] I clearly see in the light of the MOQ's analysis that you are a Marxist Victorian who still hasn't accepted the defeat of Stalin and Mao communism or acknowledged their responsibility for murdering millions. . > > I think it's a real fight and it matters quite a lot who wins. > [Platt} You bet it does. One's individual right to liberty, property and pursuit of happiness is at stake. > > > > 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
