[Bo] What is all this about American Indians' culture being non-S/O supposed to prove? We know that the social level along with all levels below intellect are non-S/O. If it is to indicate that they had reached a Quality-like meta-level it's wrong, they were no different than any other "aboriginals" in this respect.
[Arlo] >From that standpoint of your SOLAQI, perhaps you are right. However, I (for >one) reject the idea that the intellectual level is S/O, as well as the implied "everyone was stuck in the social level until white man's Intellect came and set them free". This is not to say the reverse, that everyone lived in glorious non-S/O worlds until white man's restrictive S/O enslaved them. I think one possible key lies in the metaphoricity underscoring the metaphysics. To paint very broadly, Greek-derived metaphysics located the "subject" as an external, eternally apart, distant observer of the world (S/O). Eastern metaphysical systems view the "subject" as an co-construct, not apart, active participant in the world. And it was upon these layers of bedrock that intellectual understandings of the world were constructed. The intellect of the Native Americans (again painting very broadly), their emerging intellectual level, was built on similar foundations. Although I can see why an S/O Intellect would perceive everything apart from itself as inferior. 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
