Re: MD Making sense of it

From: Mari (mld2001@adelphia.net)
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 18:17:28 GMT

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    Platt said:

    Thanks Kevin. I wish I could respond to your question about the
    public/private split but admit I haven't paid much attention to the idea.
    So I really can't answer except to say I agree with Pirsig:

    "To put philosophy in the service of any social organization or any
    dogma is immoral. It's a lower form of evolution trying to devour a higher
    one." (29)

    I hope that's relevant. As you know, my bias has always been towards
    the individual rather than the group. I'm very wary of anything proposed
    in the name of the "public good" because of the horrors perpetrated
    under that banner.

    Platt

    Mari asks:
                   Platt, do you think that this Pirsig quote:

    "To put philosophy in the service of any social organization or any
    dogma is immoral. It's a lower form of evolution trying to devour a higher
    one." (29)

                  makes sense? Will you tell me your take on it? How does that
    quote apply to a public/private split? Are there any example that you can
    think of where something was not only proposed but enacted for the "public
    good" and as intentioned, served that very good and perhaps served the
    "public good" better than intended? There is no doubt that society has made
    it's blunders. i think it is highly unlikey that individuals left to ther
    own devices and will would lead to a better place than we are now. As
    screwed up as the world seems to be, having a "free for all" does not
    immediately seem to have much merit.
    i know you didn't say that you wanted a free for all nor did you say that
    individual rule is what you are professing. i will admit to "projecting" and
    a created my own example of how self serving our philosophys and language
    can get when ego wants to run the show. Sorry for the set up! My Ego knows
    how to spin the I, ME, My song..... thought i would practice it a little
    with you. :-)

    Thanks for helping me look at things differently!

    iMari

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