"Whatever the personality traits that made him such a rebel... this man was
no mis-fit. He was intergral part of Zuni culture. The whole tribe was in a
state of evolution. He was an active catalytic agent in that tribe's social
evolution, and his personal conflicts were a part of that tribe's cultural
growth." P115 ( After months of thinking he makes the s/D split.)
"Contrarians sometimes just seem to savagely attack every kind of static
moral pattern they can find. I t seems as though they're trying to destroy
morality as a kind of revenge. ... Its common to many cultures. That Brujo
was a contrarian." P358
"Once you see it in another culture like that and then come back to our own
you can see that in an unofficial way we have our contrarian societies too.
The Bohemians of the victorian era were contrarians. So, to some extent,
were the Hippies of the Sixites." "...when you add a concept of DQ to a
rational understanding of the world, you can add a lot to an understanding
of contrarians" "That's what drives the really creative people--the artists,
composers, revolutionaries and the like..." P359
"The purpose of mystic meditation is not to remove oneself from experience
but to bring one's self closer to it by eliminating stale, confusing,
static, intellectual attachments of the past." P116 (Follows :"mystic
students would get off the stove first".)
"The advent of of both democratic and communistic socialism and the fascist
reaction to them has been the consequence of this earthquake" P266 (fall of
Victorians is the fall of social level)
"The hurricane of social forces released by the overthrow of society by
intellect was most strongly felt in Europe, ..where 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." P274
"The New Deal was many things, but at the center of it all was the belief
that intellectual planning by the government was necessary for society to
regain its health. ...it was also a new deal for the intelllectuals of
America." P274
"It's not that Victorian social economic patterns are more moral than
socialist intellectual economic patterns. Quite the opposite. They are LESS
moral as static patterns go." P221
"That's what neither the socialists nor the capitalists ever got figured
out. From a static point of view socialism is more moral than capitalism.
Its a higher form of evolution. It is an intellecually guided society, not
just a society that is guided by mindless traditions. That's what gives
socialism its drive. But what the socialists left out and what has all but
killed the whole undertaking is an absence of a concept of indefinite DQ."
P220
"He knew now that the reason nobody ever spelled it out was nobody ever
could. In a SOM understanding of the world these terms have no meanng. There
is no such things as "human rights". There is no such thing as moral
reasonableness. There are subjects and objects and nothing else." P306
"According to the MOQ these "human rights" have... a rational, metaphysical
basis. They are essential to the evolution of a higher level of life from a
lower level of life. They are for real." P307
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