Platt, Erin and all:
Wow. I'm amazed too. I'm not amazed that people can have different
interpretations, but I'm amazed that Platt is willing to directly contradict
a Pirsig quote, then delete that quote in his response and expect it to go
un-noticed. Its amazingly dishonest, brazenly disrespectful of everyone's
intelligence and its not very smart. That's what's amazing.
Please notice that I've changed the subject line to "political compass" in
case this turns into a new thread.
Anyway, I quoted the author...
Pirsig...
The Hippies have been interpreted as frivolous spoiled children, and the
period folling their departure as a 'return to values,' whatever that means.
The Metapshysics of Quality, however, says that's backward: the Hippie
revolution was the moral movement. The present period is the collapse of
values.
And then commented by listing some movements and organizations that describe
themselves as favoring a "return to values". By the way, neo-nazis and the
KKK also say the same thing about themselves, that they want to restore
traditional values.
>>>DMB: I think its pretty
>> clear that Pirsig is essential attacking well known forces like the
>> Christian Coalition, the Moral Majority, the Reagan Revolution,
Thatcherism
>> and a whole host of other crypto-fascist movements just like them in
other
>> countries.
Pirsig...
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society,
were confronted by the reactionary forces of fascism, a program for the
social control of intellect. ... The gigantic power of socialism and
fascism, which have overwhelm this century, is explained by a conflict of
levels of evolution.
>> PLATT: By contrast, I think it's pretty clear that Pirsig is
essentially
attacking >well known forces like the Americans for Democratic Action, the
Sierra>Club, the Great Society, Clintonism and a whole host of other crypto-
>communist movements just like them in other countries.
No, Platt, Pirsig is not attacking these things. You are. You've got Pirsig
attacking his own schema, attacking his own MOQ. Its wildly irrational and
conspicuously absurd. Its not even an arguement, its just an insulting,
mocking contradiction.
DMB
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