Hi All:
For the umpteenth time, David B. has attempted to distort the MOQ by
selective quotations and omissions, and then throws in a couple of
personal attacks for good measure. It makes no difference to him if his
points are refuted one by one. So here is the short and sweet of it in
Pirsig's own words:
About the static nature of socialism:
"But what the socialists left out and what has all but killed their whole
undertaking is an absence of a concept of indefinite Dynamic Quality.
You go to any socialist city and it's always a dull place because there's
little Dynamic Quality."
Compared to free market capitalism:
"A free market is a Dynamic institution. What people buy and what
people sell, in other words what people value, can never be contained
by any intellectual formula. What makes the marketplace work is
Dynamic Quality."
About the Hippie revolution:
"Phaedrus thought that this Hippie revolution could have been almost
as much as an advance over the intellectual twenties as the twenties
had been over the social 1890's, but his analysis showed that this
"Dynamic" sixties revolution made a disastrous mistake that destroyed
it before it really got started."
About the inability of SOM intellect to control society:
"What had happened since the end of World War I was that the
intellectual level had entered the picture and taken over everything. It
was this intellectual level that was screwing everything up."
As far as I'm concerned, David is welcome to live in a dull, static
society, make disastrous mistakes and screw everything up by
supporting a system that would decree how goods are produced and
distributed. The question is, will Castro let him in?
Platt
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