Marsha: I made it quite clear that I find no need to accept or reject the cultural matrix.
Rocks and rain are as real as analogy. > "Of course it's just an analogy. Everything is an analogy." On Jun 2, 2013, at 11:37 AM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Marsha said to Eddo: > Also, that cultural matrix can dissolve. It may dissolve for only a few > minutes. The results may not be "insanity" but the cultural matrix never > seems as substantial. The entire matrix becomes like a mirage. Authors like > RMP, help prepare one for such experiences. Imho. > > > dmb says: > > Where Marsha says the cultural matrix can dissolve, never seems substantial > and becomes like a mirage, Pirsig says "these moral bads and goods are not > just 'customs.' They are as real as rocks and trees" and those who live > outside of this matrix are insane. > > > Marsha's view does NOT reflect the MOQ. It's just vacuous nihilism. It's a > view that Pirsig describes as "really stupid". > > > "What the Metaphysics of Quality concludes is that the old Puritan and > Victorian social codes should not be followed blindly, but should not be > attacked blindly either. They should be dusted off and re-examined, fairly > and impartially, to see what they were trying to accomplish and what they > actually did accomplish toward building a stronger society. We must > understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own > purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological > freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good. These moral bads > and goods are not just 'customs.' They are as real as rocks and trees. The > destructive sympathy by intellectuals toward lawlessness in the sixties and > since is derived, no doubt, from what is perceived to be a common enemy, the > social system. But the Metaphysics of Quality concludes that this sympathy > was really stupid. The decades since the sixties have borne this out." > > 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
