RE: MD Making sense of it

From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Jan 18 2003 - 21:43:06 GMT

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    Platt said:
    In MoQ terms, the individual is the intellectual level, the public the
    social, placing the individual at a higher moral level than the mob.

    DMB says:
    Would you like to back up the idea that the 3rd and 4th levels are defined
    this way? I think its not essentially about individuals-vs-groups and that
    you've confused Robert Pirsig with Ayn Rand here.

    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)

    DMB says:
    Its hard to tell exactly what you make of this quote, but it seems you're
    using to undermine the idea that intellectually guided societies are morally
    superior to traditionally guided societies. In any case, I think the quote
    expresses an idea that is easily seen in a specific example. Remember when
    he discusses his fraternity brothers who were happy to sell out. Instead of
    doing science for the sake of science, they were willing to do it for the
    sake of a buck? He says its wrong for a social organization, in this case a
    company, that only USES science to make money. This is a specific case of "a
    lower form of evolution trying to devour a higher one" and makes the meaning
    of the quote quite clear.

    Thanks,
    DMB

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