From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Aug 29 2004 - 13:34:59 BST
Hi Ian,
> Better (MoQ-based) tests than cold scientific logic ?
> How about ...
>
> Consideration of which (MoQ) layers the current issue relates,
> relationships between the layers and the motivations of the actors
> involved. Gut feel, common sense, the opinion of someone you "trust". A
> good story, a good joke / aphorism / analogy / metaphor, sleep on it
> perhaps ... A long hard think on a lonely mountaintop, after a long hard
> climb in which to forget about cultural pre-conceptions ? Or the Joni
> Mitchell Method - "I've looked at clouds from both sides now" Or - my
> personal favourite - staring in wonder at a strong tidal flow of water for
> a few hours.
>
> All sounds a bit "Zen Enlightenment" that ?
> What a surprise, given I'm no Buddhist, nor any kind of mystic.
> Just "feels" right. If it (genuinely) feels good do it.
Your advice "If it feels good, do it" reminded me of Pirsig's analysis of
the hippie movement of the 60s. Your objections to the "prevailing
paradigm" appear to me to be very much like what the flower children also
found objectionable:
"Whatever the intellectuals of the twenties had fought to create, the
flower children of the sixties fought to destroy. Contempt for rules, for
material possessions, for war, for police, for science, for technology
were standard repertoire." (Lila, 24)
Thanks for responding to my question.
Platt
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