Hi Dan, On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Dan Glover <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Steven Peterson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> LC annotation 126. "God knows, the MOQ has never had two better >> friends than Bo and Platt." > > Dan: > > Yes... notice how skillfully Robert Pirsig uses praise to lessen the > impact of telling Bo and Platt that they're wrong: > > "... so this is no criticism of their otherwise > brilliant thinking. It’s just that I see a lowering of the > quality of the MOQ itself if you follow this path of > subordinating it to that which it opposes." [RMP annotation 126] > > Dan comments: > > Really, we could learn a great deal from this here. And God (it is > meant as a literary device, not an actual statement of belief) knows I > am as guilty as the next person in condemning and criticizing. > > Just something to consider, that's all.
Steve: That's a great point. What was interesting to me in reflecting on that quote is how clueless the great author seems to be about who the MOQ's friends and enemies are. Perhaps dmb has already risen to the level of the brilliant Platt and Bo in the esteem of Pirsig. What a thrill it must be to be counted among their number! Newton had Bacon, Darwin had Huxley, and Jesus had Paul of Tarsus who managed to take a wise man's teaching in response to persecution and turn it into a religion which itself became a tool of persecution. Heretics must be dealt with and harshly. There is no room for parallel valid interpretations. There can be only one answer to every question, and it must be phrased in the words chosen by the Bulldog--a narcissist who can only stomach hearing his own words parroted back to him. All other phrasings even of pretty much the same notions are heresies which must be expunged before they spread. How would a narcissistic Bulldog be as a teacher? It will go something like this: "Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's." 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
