mark: (anthony>>?) Pirsig does place more emphasis on individual self-development (through Buddhist thought) rather than mass social movements so the plausibility of choosing an economic or politically orientated solution over Pirsig's in dealing with modern alienation could possibly be loosely framed as choosing between the respective effectiveness of Buddhist philosophy or radical politics in achieving positive global social change. (McWatt 2004, p. 137-8)
Poot: just a brief comment. It makes sense to put self-development ahead, to me, and heres why, as concisely as I can put it; Attempting to develop with the intentions of affecting society, rather than self can be tricky because there is so much to concieve at any given point, and its impossible to tell what the results of actions (in good will) will result in. If you develop yourself , with the aims of leading of life of high-value choices, towards evolution , or basically in a positive way, then you can affect society in a very positive way. i.e. vegetarianism, is often a personal choice, but this personal choice is often spread to others who are in contact with the vegetarian, and then come to examine their own lives . There are certain value choices that are very common, and easily contagious. Some most frequent relate to acts of kindness, generosity, anger, revenge, guilt, and respect, just to name a few. Poot MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_focus/ MF Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_focus follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/mf/subscribe.html
