Scott,
To me Pirsig is not making social/intellectual freedom an either or thing
here. He is promoting social freedom AND intellectual freedom. I think this
is consistent with a individual and collective morality.
PIRSIG:
> > .................... Within the long, long MOQ view of things Iım
> > optimistic that this current social earthquake will relieve social
> > tensions that have existed for centuries and lead to a better world.
> > Apparently Islam is now split between those, such as the urban Egyptians,
> > who favor the social freedom that allows the intellectual level to grow;
> > and conservative Muslim clerics, who want to prevent any social or
> > intellectual freedom. Christianity had the same problem during the
> > Renaissance and overcame it. So have other religions. In every case that
> > I can think of, the static forces have had to slowly and painfully give
> > way to the Dynamic ones.
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