Hello DMB,
This is an excellent analysis. This is why the MOQ will eventually replace
the metaphysics of substance, SOM, as the dominant intellectual pattern.
The MOQ asserts intellect's moral right to be free from repression by social
forces, while simultaneously asserting the moral right of social patterns to
be free from repression by biological patterns. The war between intellect
and society, between Science and Religion, which has all but killed society
and given rise to an unprecedented rise in crime, drug abuse, terrorism, and
biological degeneracy of all kinds, will be alleviated. By also asserting
the moral right of Dynamic Quality to be free from repression by lower level
intellectual patterns, it brings spirituality and art back to their proper
place.
Regards,
-- Sriram
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Buchanan" <DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 2:11 PM
Subject: MD Failure of the Enlightenment
> Dear Pirsigians:
>
> Somebody claimed that postmodernism and/or deconstructionism is a reaction
> to the failure of the Enlightment. I don't doubt it. Lots of things are a
> response to that same problem. The MOQ is an attempt to correct that
> failure. Pirsig argues that this failure has resulted in a metaphysics of
> substance, which is otherwise known as SOM. He also points at the same
> mistake in refering to amoral scientific objectivity. The same thing might
> be called godless materialism by religious conservatives. All reactionary
> movements are a response to an intellectual system that has failed to
> include social level values. They're reacting to the death of god. In the
> intellectual level's attempt to assert itself over social level values it
> has ignored and destroyed them. This is the failure of the enlightenment.
> This is what the MOQ attempts to fix.
>
> DMB
>
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