Marco and Foci.
19 Oct you wrote:
> Your words meet my fears, Bobby. The social level is invading the
> intellect. Market is the current weapon: today they don't burn the
> books, they buy writers and readers.
I will just zoom in on this small fragment of your impressive post
Marco. As I see it Intellect can't be "invaded" by Social values -
they are fire and water - but an intellect-influenced culture (or
"country") can return to a more social influenced status - if need
be, because it is a more solid latch.
The examples of "buying writers and readers" are examples of how
social roots are visible wherever one digs, but presents no invasion -
except disappointing those who want everything to be purely
"objective" (Intellect's chief value). See how the SOL idea is proved
over and over again!
One other thing: The topic of this month reflects the belief that
modern (western) countries are good SOCIAL patterns, but can be
improved. Carrying the analogy a step down; that a mammal is a
better BIOLOGICAL pattern than an amoeba. This is not so IMO,
they are more evolved ...evolved enough to become carriers of the
next value level, and my idea is that by now Intellect has evolved far
enough to support a new level.
Look, it's always the higher level that judges the lower one in the
light of its own values, so it is Intellect that judges societies and
says that democracy is good, but not good enough ...and brings up
all those examples of its corruption. This demonstrates of how
terribly hard it is to tear loose from the Intellect ..and adopt the
Quality p.o.v.
The human body is biological and yet the carrier of social value; the
society is social and yet the carrier of intellectual value. Intellectual
value has by now evolved far enough to spawn something that can't
be contained. This tentative new value will necessarily be
"intellectual" and yet transcend Intellect ..... for the first time
Intellect is judged.
And Intellect is furious, it wants the Quality idea to be a mere
intellectual pattern - as a matter of fact NOTHING can be anything
than an intellectual patter to Intellect, no value level recognizes any
value level above itself. If it succeeds the MOQ is disarmed, but I
don't have the least worry. This discussion will end and Pirsig's
work will recede into obscurity, but the seed is sown. Things won't
be the same ever.
Thanks for reading
Bo
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