PUZZLED ELEPHANT TO BRENDAN:
BRENDAN WROTE:
> While I was reading Huxley's book titled, "Island," I found a rather
> interesting quotation from Spinoza: "The more a man knows about individual
> objects, the more he knows about god."
>
> Huxley translates this to mean: The more man knows about himself in
> realtion to every kind of expreience, the greater the chance of him
> realizing who in fact he is.
ELEPHANT:
Actually, from an MOQ point of veiw, Huxley ought to be a lot more
interesting than either Spinoza or God (weirdos the pair of them!). Huxley
famously wrote a novel to argue that happiness, the satisfactory relation of
all parts of experience, is the very last thing you should set out to
acheive. Would anyone care to comment on how this sits with life liberty
and the pursuit of Quality? How and where does MOQ (and pragmatism in
general) contrast with the Fordism of Brave New World? Questions, just
questions.
Pzeph
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