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Hey Rick,
I have been thinking about the description of the intellectual level being
"marketplace of ideas" . I like it. I think it brings in the importance of the
interaction on this level and not just dormant ideas.
By interacting with our environment we establish our existence within that
environment. Now the social level interacts mainly on a emotional level and I
have been thinking about the interaction of the intellectual level.
I know that interaction on this level is not limited to the interent but I
noticed Pirsig's emphasis on the internet and was wondering what your
thoughts.
(Glenn I don't know if this works but could you say the internet
/intellectuals
keep with the compositional theme?)
Maybe the internet is the intellectual wilderness because it is allows an
interaction that is unlike the interaction found on the social level.
(Platt maybe this relates to your last post about "live and let live". I
always like N's "to each his own" but that seems to contradict the importance
of interaction (and everything that goes on with this site)
PIRSIG:
“I stumbled across your stunning Athens Forum site last night and called Wendy
to the computer. When we had finished reading it all we took out a bottle of
cognac and celebrated. The MOQ is at last out of my hands. Other people are at
last sustaining it on a continuing social basis. I can disappear tomorrow and
it will keep on going. This is a major event in its history. "
I stumbled across " Lila's Child" the other day on the internet, have now read
it and am very impressed by it. It really is the third book that has been
needed to follow the first two. it would have been impossible without the
internet to bring together this collection of minds and interests.
"Readers of the English paperback of Lila may remember my statement before it
was published that while ZMM was like a first child and would probably always
be the best loved, this second child, Lila, was the bright one. It might seem
controversial or disappointing to some, but if these two books are read 100
years from now, Lila will be regarded as the more important. The work of those
on the Internet today makes that prediction seem stronger now than ever.
"I sometimes see you as a group of surveyors at the edge of a kind of
intellectual wilderness. You're all engaged in a creative activity rather than
just sitting back parroting and dissecting old masters."
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