From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Mar 21 2005 - 14:13:12 GMT
Erin wrote:
> yes i would consider it degenerative but I don't know about keeping it to
> himself makes it harmless. If all I do is eat twinkies, I may not be doing
> harm to others (not sure if I even agree with that), but I think it would
> be doing harm to me and it would be degenerative. So if people privately
> listen to rock-n-roll it is not degenerative?
Well, if you ate twinkies until you got sick, that would be degenerate. If
young kids listen all the time to rock and watch MTV, they're likely to be
corrupted like those 2nd graders who wrote notes that blew your mind. As
Pirsig says, "Intellectuals have failed to understand the ocean of
biological quality that is constantly being suppressed by social order."
And what is biological quality? "Things like sex and booze and drugs and-
tobacco have a high biological quality, that is, they feel good, but are
harmful for social reasons." (Lila, 13).
Platt
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