From: Richard Loggins (brloggins@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Mar 31 2005 - 22:33:09 BST
Friends,
Platt noted that 'Shock treatments can be beneficial
as Pirsig points out in Chap. 30 of
Lila. Not only does he state that shock treatments
"work," but that "...the senseless unpatterned state
(caused by shock therapy) is a valuable state of
existence." '
The idea that a 'senseless unpatterned state is a
valuable state of existence' makes me wonder about
Terry Shiavo. Whose to say that she was'nt in a
perfect state of bliss until they pulled the tube and
killed her. Her brain scans showed mostly a soup of
fluids but as Pirsig points out in Lila, Quality has
never been found in the brain. Social and intellectual
patterns are not a mere extension from the physical,
but are independant of it. Until the SOM that
infultrates our laws is superseded by Quality, we will
have to despair the Quality-less decisions of our
policital systems. May she be blessed with Quality
even in death, tho life be better.
Rich
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