From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Nov 09 2004 - 12:02:54 GMT
Hi All,
As I read the posts that reacted to the article about allowing the
teaching of "alternate theories of origin in biology" in a Wisconsin
school I was reminded once again of the following passage from Lila:
"There are so many kinds of problem people like Rigel around, he thought,
but the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals.
Full of great ways for others to improve without any expense to
themselves. There's an ego thing in there, too. They use the morals to
make someone else look inferior and that way look better themselves. It
doesn't matter what the moral code is- religious morals, political morals,
racist morals, capitalist morals, feminist morals, hippie morals-they're
all the same. The moral codes change but the meanness and the egotism stay
the same." (Lila, 7)
Perhaps we need to be reminded from time to time that Pirsig himself
offers an "alternate theory of origin," and that defining an entire group
of fellow citizens with a different view than your own as lunatics, idiots
and purveyors of insanity is a gross form of bigotry. The irony of such
pejoratives coming from those who preach inclusion, tolerance and
diversity is not lost on the rubes who came out in droves in the recent
U.S. election to defeat the forces of elitist secularism.
Best,
Platt
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