> DMB; There's a correlation between ideologies and cognitive development,
> but its not a law of nature or anything. Its not even about being smart.
> Its about the values you hold. But on to the book review....
Where do you find evidence of this "correlation?" What ideologies are
you talking about? What values are involved? On what basis are they
formed?
> Heidegger, Schmitt and Kojeve were NAZIs who had become disenchanted with
> both philosohpy and liberal democracy. And the NAZIs used intellectuals
> just as they used scientists, they put them to work in the war machine or
> killed them. RECKLESS MIND is taught at Rice University in their religious
> studies department and Mark Lilla is a professor at the notoriously
> conservative University of Chicago. Take a guess what sort of political
> views the author has based on the book review anyway...
Calling the University of Chicago "notoriously conservative" gives me a
good guess at your political views. But, what about Foucault and
Derrida, the darlings of the postmodernists? Why did you omit them
from your commentary? Were they attracted to Nazism, too?
> Platt;
> As Pirsig points out, intellectuals (defined as high IQ types) are ill-
> equipped to run society.
>
> DMB
> There you go again. SOM is ill-equipped to run society, not the intellect
> per se. How many times do I have to?.... Oh, nevermind.
In the MOQ, intellect per se is SOM no matter how many times you say
otherwise--the pattern of amoral objective that has messed up society
by taking biology's side. It's in Chapter 24 of LILA. You really should
read it again sometime.
Platt
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