Hi Platt,
"I for one can easily get caught up in
"humanitarian" and "win-win" solutions to the mid-East situation and
terrorist threats to Western civilization."
It's to be expected--that big heart of yours always getting in the way with
thinking clearly.
Did you put a cowboy hat and drape yourself in an American flag when you wrote
this?
You crack me up--you remind me of a character right out of "12 Angry Men".
Erin
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You wrote:
> It's true that intellectual patterns, especially in a dominant position,
> can work to destroy the lower level social patterns. In Lila, Pirsig
> writes about how the current dominant "amoral" SOM intellectual patterns
> have taken the side of biology in the conflict of social patterns with
> biological patterns, and thus have caused tremendous social destruction.
Thanks for an important reminder. I for one can easily get caught up in
"humanitarian" and "win-win" solutions to the mid-East situation and
terrorist threats to Western civilization. I tend to forget Pirsig's warning
that: "Intellectuals must find biological behavior, no matter what its
ethnic connection, and limit or destroy destructive biological patterns
with complete moral ruthlessness, the way a doctor destroys germs,
before those biological patterns destroy civilization itself." Among
Western leaders today, only Netanyahu seems to have a firm grip on
this principle.
> However, even so, social patterns have no right to repress intellectual
> patterns of any kind, even if they are "stupid." It is immoral for them
> to do so. It is probable that religious authorities of Galileo's time
> considered his ideas regarding the solar system to be "stupid." It is
> highly likely that many current day religious and government figures
> consider the Metaphysics of Quality to be "stupid." The freedom of
> speech and other human rights were created to protect all intellectual
> patterns, both stupid and smart, from immoral repression by lower level
> social patterns. It's often the "stupid" intellectual patterns that turn
> out to be smart later.
Bravo. A ringing endorsement for the unalienable right of free speech.
Too often these days intellectual patterns are filtered, censored and
otherwise distorted by social level groupthink and "identity politics,"
e.g., liberalism, feminism, people of color, the white power structure,
etc.
> What will and should happen instead is that SOM - dominated intellectual
> patterns will be replaced by MOQ intellectual patterns because they are
> better, i.e. they have higher intellectual quality. MOQ intellectual
> patterns can recognize the difference between conflicts of social
> patterns with biological patterns and conflicts of intellectual patterns
> with social patterns and will take the side of society in its effort to
> control and repress biology. When this happens, the social destruction
> caused by the dominant SOM intellectual patterns will be alleviated.
That indeed is the hope. The attempt by postmodernists, who
comprise today's intellectual elite, to deconstruct and thus destroy logic
and common sense (there are no facts) must not succeed. Otherwise,
individual freedom, the only source of responses to DQ, will become a
distant memory as the Dark Ages
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